Greville Fane's French and Italian were droll; the imitative faculty had been denied her, and she had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. She knew it, but she didn't care; correctness was the virtue in the world that, like her heroes and heroines, she valued least.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

E. B. White

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Karl Lagerfeld

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau

Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Amit Ray

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Timothy Pina

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

Stephen Leacock

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it

Confucius

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Pearl S. Buck

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

Janet Frame