To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Lord Chesterfield

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

Italian Proverb

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

Jack Kevorkian

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.Enemies of Promise is Connolly's autobiography where he attempted to explain why he failed to produce the literary masterpiece which he and others believed he should have been capable of writing.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Theodore Roosevelt

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.

John Searle

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

Beatrice Wood

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

Albert Finney

You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats, Land of He

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward Burnett Tylor