Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead.

Anthony Ravenscroft

All I do is go to the movies.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I bear a charmed life.

William Shakespeare

My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.

John Donne

Each person is his own judge.

American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Thucydides

I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?

Neil Gaiman

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

George Washington

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Yiddish Proverb

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact.

George Orwell

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin