I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

John Holt

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

Lennart Nilsson

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

J. M. Roberts

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Bill Keller

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He gotpretty good. He could go under a rug.

Steven Wright

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love

Mahatma Gandhi

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

Edmund Burke

Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,With whips and stings

Nicholas Rowe