Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Bernard Crick

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Pope John Paul II

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Louisa May Alcott

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

Victor Hugo

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.

Pyreglide

We dont like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. Well, art is art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx

the materialist conception of history.

Christopher Hitchens

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert G. Ingersoll