Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

Ani DiFranco

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Brandon Mull

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Walter Cronkite

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Luciano Pavarotti

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

George Eliot

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

Alice Meynell