I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we no longer have religion after the war then I think there must be some form of civic penance organized that all may be cleansed from the killing or else we will never have a true and human basis for living. The killing is necessary, I know, but still the doing of it is very bad for a man and I think that, after all this is over and we have won the war, there must be a penance of some kind for the cleansing of us all.

Ernest Hemingway

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man.... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus

No one every suddenly became depraved.

Juvenal

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers

George Bernard Shaw

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Thomas Carlyle

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Michael Weatherly

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it. His reply was that if it was not for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

Abraham Lincoln

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

Barbara Bush

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Oliver Goldsmith