Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

James Fenimore Cooper

with his customary crooked smile, are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Cassandra Clare

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

Christina Rossetti

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Alexander DouglasHome

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'

Justine Skye

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

Jonathan Sacks

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

Debra Winger

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb