It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Martin Tupper

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night

Friedrich Nietzsche

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

More law, less justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion

Thomas Carlyle

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Robin Morgan

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Vaclav Havel

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Nina Totenberg

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Marquis de Sade

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Andy Grove

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick