When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

John Malkovich

Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

J. Yahl

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

Oscar Wilde

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Martin Pitt

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Henry David Thoreau

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Hattie McDaniel

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Henry Rollins

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Henry Norris Russell