Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

James Allen

I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

Walker Percy, The Moviegoer char

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

Chief Joseph

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Estelle Morris

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

Lawrence Durrell

All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery.

Source Unknown

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Jack Nicholson

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

Alberto Fujimori

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Constantin Stanislavski

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Loretta Lynn

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Karl Marx

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Sir Thomas Browne