My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

William Shakespeare

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Chris Van Hollen

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Nicholas Boileau

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Moli

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

John W. Gardner, The Art of Fict

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Fitzhugh Dodson

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

David Gest

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

John Lennon

You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

Rumi

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Johnny Carson