How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Hank Aaron

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Victor Hugo

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Samuel Johnson

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.

Samuel Beckett

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Jane Austen

No gentleman ever has any money.

Oscar Wilde

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Reinhold Niebuhr

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Thomas Jefferson

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Virginia Woolf

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Ayn Rand