The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

Mike Norton

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

Cynthia McKinney

For any truth, if overdone (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

Vladimir Lenin

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Hilaire Belloc

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

Jo Brand

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

David Frum

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Miller