Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Mark Twain

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot

... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and hot in my ear and a note of tenderness was there at the end like a lovely curlicue and I liked him because there was no disguising the honest male gladness that went from his body out to mine.

Glen Duncan

Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Henry David Thoreau

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees (VII, 38)

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Karl Marx

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

William Barclay

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.

Orson Scott Card

Our level of love or our level of fear determines the state of our reality.

Stephen Richards

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.

Mario Balotelli

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Benjamin J. Montalbano

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.