Ere to sleepThou liest down, prepare to guard thy life--A man is friendless in the hour of trial. . . .I to the needy gave, the orphan nourished,Esteemed alike the lowly and the great;But he who ate my bread made insurrection,And those my hands raised up, occasion seizedRebellion to create. . . . They went aboutAll uniformed in garments that I gaveAnd deemed me but a shadow. . . . Those who sharedMy perfumes for anointment, rose betimesAnd broke into my harem.

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

Ambrose Bierce

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Robert A. Heinlein

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Stephen Fry

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

David Sedaris

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

John Bruton

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

George H. W. Bush

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Corrie Ten Boom

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time

Voltaire

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin