The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Sigmund Freud

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Kurt Vonnegut

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Eric Hoffer

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

William Ewart Gladstone

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Andy Warhol

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

Danny Wallace

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

Felix Frankfurter

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

W. Somerset Maugham