Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Hugh Blair

It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.

Craig Ferguson

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

Teddy Thompson

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.(as Maudie Triplett), Response to Goodness! What a lovely diamond! in the film Night After Night (1932). She later used

Mae West

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

Elizabeth Goudge

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Sydney J. Harris

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Sol Wachtler

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life...

George Orwell, Riding Down from

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Herman Melville

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Publilius Syrus