Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Michael Haneke

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Elias Canetti

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Sara Shepard

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

Vladimir Nabokov

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Oscar Wilde

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Adam Zimbler

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Paula Deen

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Henry David Thoreau

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown