It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Fl

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

James A. Baldwin

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

J.K. Rowling

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

O. J. Simpson

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward Thorndike

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Tom DeLonge

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Suze Orman

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Alan Keyes

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert (speak out) upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without it we must fall at once into depression or anarchy. To say that he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, and that, if he expresses them in public, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, all protection of the laws, and to justify and extenuate all crimes.

William Cullen Bryant, defending