Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

John Hodgman

Revolutions never go backward.

Wendell Phillips

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!

Charles Dickens

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

B. C. Forbes

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

LouisFerdinand Celine

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Elvis Presley

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

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I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

Jane Siberry

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Cassandra Clare

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.

Adam Smith

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

Terry Pratchett