Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

Naomi Wolf

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Stephane Mallarme

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.

Charles Hughes

You're just as sane as I am.

J.K. Rowling

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Sir Winston Churchill

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.

Claude M. Bristol

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

J. C. Hare

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Edith Sitwell

Life is the definition you give to events that occur.

Steve Maraboli