They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

A herp is simply the kind of animal studied by a herpetologist, and that is a pretty lame way to define an animal. The only other name that comes close is the biblical 'creeping thing

Richard Dawkins

The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.

Thomas Sowell

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Madeleine Albright

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Steve Martin

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

Kin Hubbard

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

Henry Miller

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Jodi Picoult

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Mason Cooley

Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

Robert Francis Kennedy