Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

Jillian Michaels

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon so long as there is no answer to it gives claws to the weak.

George Orwell

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

John C. Hawkes

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Samuel Johnson

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

William Butler Yeats

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,Sorrow calls no time that 's gone;Violets plucked, the sweetest rainMakes not fresh nor grow again.

John Fletcher, The Queen of Cori

All lovers swear more performance than they are able

William Shakespeare

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

Rodney Dangerfield

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Friedrich von Schiller

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein