Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races To a goal no foot can reach, For reckless leaps into darkness With hands outstretched to a star, There is jubilation in Heaven Where the great dead poets are.

Joyce Kilmer

No one judges the mistakes of love - so long as they are accompanied by sincere repentance - no one judges them with more understanding than a woman at once irreproachable and sensitive.

Andre Maurois

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Danish proverb

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses

To hate fatigues.

Jean Rostand

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Mark Twain

?Speak up, spread the word, take a pledge, take action...we can all do something to try and end the abuse of bullying!

Timothy Pina

Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.

Victor Hugo

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Steve Maraboli

[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American, an Irish-American and so forth. (Jews for some reason prefer the words the other way around, as in 'American Jewish Congress' or 'American Jewish Committee.') And any of those groups can and does have a 'national day' parade on Fifth Avenue in New York. But there is no such thing as an 'English-American' let alone a 'British-American,' and one can only boggle at the idea of what, if we did exist, our national day parade on Fifth Avenue might look like. One can, though, be an Englishman in America. There is a culture, even a literature, possibly a language, and certainly a diplomatic and military relationship, that can accurately be termed 'Anglo-American.' But something in the very landscape and mapping of America, with seven eastern seaboard states named for English monarchs or aristocrats and countless hamlets and cities replicated from counties and shires across the Atlantic, that makes hyphenation redundant. Hyphenation if one may be blunt is for latecomers.

Christopher Hitchens