Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!

Muhammad Ali

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Max Nordau

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

Mark Twain

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of

Victor Hugo

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Edward W. Howe

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Mae West

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Marguerite Duras

I had a girlfriend that was so fat her belly button made an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.http://www.twainquotes.com/Congress.html

Mark Twain, Mark Twain, a Biogra

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Cathy McMorris

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Emily Procter

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Roger Scruton