The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Rodney Dangerfield

In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was flogging a dead horse.

John Morley

In future, Clarissa, he said, it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.You invited him into bed? Simon demanded, looking shaken. Ridiculous, isn't it? said Jace. We would never have all fit.I didn't invite him into bed, Clary snapped. We were just kissing.Just kissing? Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. How swiftly you dismiss our love.

Cassandra Clare

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Julia Ward Howe

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes

Orson Scott Card

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Charley Pride

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

William Blake

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Fanny Brice

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Michael Faraday

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Douglas Hofstadter

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625