Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Ronald Reagan

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

Oscar Wilde

She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buc

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

Ronald Reagan

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

George Orwell

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow...that it passes through

Bob Dylan

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Norman Mailer

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

George Ade

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead