The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat

Samuel Johnson

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Bill Gates

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Kurt Vonnegut

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please--even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, Oc

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

Vincent Van Gogh

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

Robert Byrne

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Mao Zedong

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

Gary Oldman

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

Tabare Vazquez

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Ray Bradbury

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Groucho Marx