Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence.

George Santayana

It's like a play we're watching

James Dye

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

Tecumseh

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.

John Green

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Maggie Smith

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dire .. que l'homme est constitué de certains éléments chimiques est une description ne convenant qu'? ceux dont l'intention est de l'utiliser comme engrais.

Edmund W. Sinnott

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Eric Hoffer

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Bernard Manning

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Lydia Maria Child