Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

William Tecumseh Sherman

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

R. L. Stine

I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

Anakin Skywalker

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Sherman Alexie

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Judge Learned Hand

Sex contains all, bodies, souls,Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties,delights of the earth.

Walt Whitman

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Francis Picabia

You may not have been responsible for your heritage, but you are responsible for your future.

Anonymous

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Morton Hunt

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Walter Lippmann

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells