You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Though feminists have been arguing for years that there is a self-defining female energy, and a female libido that is not expressed merely in response to demands by the male, and a female way of being and of experiencing the world, we are still not close to understanding what it might be. Yet every mother who has held a girl child in her arms has known that she was different from a boy child and that she would approach the reality around her in a different way. She is a female and she will die female, and though many centuries should pass, archaeologists would identify her skeleton as the remains of a female creature.

Germaine Greer

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

Proverb

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Oscar Wilde

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

Johnson

All men would be cowards if they could.

Earl Rochester

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

R. L. Stine

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Flannery O'Connor

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Shirley MacLaine

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

Benjamin Franklin

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Og Mandino