Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

Allen West

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

My wife has to be the worst cook. In my house, we pray after we eat.

Rodney Dangerfield

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Mahatma Gandhi

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Mark Twain

George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.

Harvey Weinstein

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

W. S. Gilbert

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Rick Moody

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley