Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

Benjamin Franklin

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.

Ronald Reagan

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Lewis Carroll

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

A. N. Wilson

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

Dana Fox

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

Taylor Swift

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

Amy Poehler

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

Valerie Solanis