All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Oscar Wilde

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Rabbi Hillel

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Mark Kennedy

Gaining control of your thoughts is as easy as sitting by the ocean and controlling the waves.

Michael Lipsey

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Albert Camus

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Josh Billings

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

Madeleine Stowe

Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.

Victor Hugo

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

Christine O'Donnell

Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.

Vivien Kellems

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Robert Shea