High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Charlie Chaplin

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Henry James

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Ogden Nash

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that.

Jarod Kintz

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police

Albert Einstein

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.

Jerry Seinfeld

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Rumi