If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Marcel Duchamp

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Edward R. Murrow

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

Adela Florence Nicolson

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Benjamin Disraeli

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Edward W. Howe

One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Romain Rolland

I keep reading between the lies.

Goodman Ace

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs pounce on the same food, but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be described as incoherent.

Kouhei Kadono

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

English Proverb

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Brandon Mull