Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Nicholas Murray Butler

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Thomas Carlyle

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

John Milton

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Joni Mitchell

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Cassandra Clare

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands

Thomas Jefferson

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

Alicia Witt

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Herbert Kaufman

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn