Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Fred Woodworth

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

Virginia Woolf

The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11.25

Bible

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Peter Krause

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Henry David Thoreau

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Charles Eastman

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Robert Runcie

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

Sheryl Sandberg

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan