My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.

Arthur Symons

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Dixie Lee Ray

Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow

Larry Michael Dredla

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Jane Austen

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

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Samuel Johnson

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say it was god's will when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

Terry Pratchett

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

So I started out for God knows where.I guess I'll know when I get there.

Tom Petty

Because he loves pussy. Except it smells like fish!

Kathy Griffin