Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Thomas Hardy

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

Valerie Solanis

I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.

Victoria Justice

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

George Eliot

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

Gary Ackerman

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Joyce Meyer

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Barbara Jordan

Beauty least adorned is most adorned

John Lancaster Spalding

Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

Stephen Richards

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot