Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Oscar Wilde

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Aldrich Ames

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

Anon.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Eartha Kitt

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Ricardo Montalban

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Philip Levine

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Saul Bellow

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Livy

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Barbara Smith