The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Marty Feldman

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Rebecca Lobo

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Marquis de Sade

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Robert Bloch

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Cardinal De Richelieu

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Neil Gaiman

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

H. L. Mencken

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick