However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

Hunter Parrish

It was not desirable that the pitiless should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.

George Orwell

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Hannah Arendt

Confidence awakens confidence.

Friedrich Von Sachsen

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

Will Foley

Never regret anything that once made you happy.

Ada

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Voltaire

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Aristotle

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Betty Friedan

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Otto von Bismarck

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Walter F. Mondale