I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Josh Billings

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me?I said, Sure. How much?She says, Five bucks, two dollars for the room.Was it nice, Jack?All women are nice.

Jack Kerouac

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

Tara Lipinski

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Groucho Marx

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Robert Conklin

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

Michael Collins

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.

General Iberico Saint Jean

I know it, but I'm going to let it go, because i'm the bigger person. Not literally but metaphorically as well. Because I believe what you put into the universe comes back at you times three, which is why I always try only to put good things, not horrible skinny bitch things, into the universe.

Meg Cabot

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

William M. Evarts