A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.

I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.

William Shakespeare

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Albert Camus

The land was ours before we were the lands.

Robert Frost

Science demands patience.

Arthur C. Clarke

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.

Laurence Lee

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

Edie Brickell

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Jonathan Kozol

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Albert Einstein

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander the Great

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Thurgood Marshall