Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

George Meredith

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

Aldous Huxley

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Greil Marcus

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Melissa Marr

Beginnings are always messy.

John Galsworthy

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Joseph Addison

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

George Bernard Shaw

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Stephen Richards

If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.

LL Cool J

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Grant M. Bright

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

J. William Fulbright

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde