To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Ron Livingston

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Jonathan Swift

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

Adam Oates

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

James Denton

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer

Success is a great deodorant.

Elizabeth Taylor

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus