Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all. Bourgeois life on the whole seemed to me pedantic.

KaThe Kollwitz

I've never had an intelligent conversation with a beautiful woman. But then, I've never had an intelligent conversation. Or talked to a beautiful woman.

Bauvard

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

David Hume

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Lawrence Durrell

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

Source Unknown

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.

Hyman Rickover

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Tryon Edwards

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Hattie McDaniel

This is Alvin Smith, said Cooper. He's a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.

Orson Scott Card

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson