When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Walter Bagehot

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Chinese Proverb

Der Gedanke ist ein Vogel, der Raum braucht und in einem Käfig von Worten zwar seine Flügel ausbreiten, aber nicht fliegen kann.

Kahlil Gibran

It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown.

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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

Taryn Manning

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

Julie Benz

A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric....

Thomas Henry Huxley

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Plato

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Lewis Mumford

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard