Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: For Heavens sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Thomas Carlyle

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

Robert Shea

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

Cassandra Clare

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Joan Rivers

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Richard Bach

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and halfshut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

Hillary Clinton

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Minna Antrim

n sooth, I know not why I am so sad:It wearies me; you say it wearies you;But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,I am to learn;And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,That I have much ado to know myself.

William Shakespeare

Yet this is a truth people so easily seem to forget and begin to prize local, sectional or provincial interests above and regardless of the national interests. It naturally pains me to find the curse of provincialism holding sway over any section of Pakistan. Pakistan must be rid of this evil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.

Dita Von Teese