The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Marcel Proust

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Johnny Weissmuller

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

Beth Ditto

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

Harvey Fierstein

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Madeline Claire Franklin

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Jean Cocteau

The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

Heather Wilson

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Jerry Stiller