In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent: so you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

Benjamin Haydon

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

David Frum

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Barack Obama

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward George BulwerLytton

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Steven Wright

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

Edward Blishen

For pity melts the mind to love.

John Dryden

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

James Russell Lowell

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt