Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

C.S. Lewis

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Ralph J. Cudworth

If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left.

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Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Bertrand Russell

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Charles Kuralt

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

?We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

Thomas Jefferson

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow