I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all for fear of being carried off their feet. The prospect really does frighten me that they may finally become so engrossed in a cowardly love of immediate pleasures that their interest in their own future and in that of their descendants may vanish, and that they will prefer tamely to follow the course of their destiny rather than make a sudden energetic effort necessary to set things right.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.On painting new ceiling for the Paris Opera

Marc Chagall, October 14, 1963

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

George Bush

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Thornton Wilder

I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Fortune love you.

William Shakespeare

My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.

Miguel de Cervantes

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bill Bryson

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

C.S. Lewis

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Alex Haley

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Imelda Marcos