I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

Oscar Wilde

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Jean Baudrillard

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Pierre de Fermat

We've been on our peace gig, as we call it, for a year solid. And people say, 'Do you think it's having any effect?' I can't answer that. It's like asking me in the Cavern, 'Are you gonna make it?' In the back of my mind I thought, I'm gonna make it, but I couldn't lay it on the line. And I think that peace is more tangible than Beatles.

John Lennon

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

Taylor Phinney

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Robert Musil

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin