Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

Samuel L. Jackson

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Will Rogers

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.

Phyllis McGinley

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

Virginia Graham

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

Jack Dee

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Riches come forth from one who owns little, while another of material wealth turns penniless.

Al-Kindi

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain