Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

George MacDonald

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Alexander Pope

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Clifford Geertz

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Andrew Young

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Lafcadio Hearn

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

George Meredith

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Jodi Picoult

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

Christopher Walken

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

J. C. Watts

One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world.

Steven Wright

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Arthur Smith