We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass, ' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

Cassandra Clare

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine.

William Arthur Sirmon

Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

John Burroughs

But everything changes. To deny change is to deny life. And the present moment contains miracles. Including an ability to see and receive the new.

Brooke Berman

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.

E. Joseph Cossman

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

RuPaul

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out

Solomon Ibn Gabirol ben Judah

Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Philippe Quinault