Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.

Lewis H. Lapham

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Craig Bruce

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

Gwen Stefani

every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.

Jodi Picoult

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

Charles Baudelaire

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Tom Robbins

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Carol Burnett

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

Frank Carson

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Steve Perry

No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw