A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105

Bible

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.

Lewis Thomas

Un croquis vaut mieux qu???un long discours.Fr., A sketch is better than a long speech.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Patti Smith

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Mark Twain

Chip did not believe in having a shock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and each with whatever fit.

John Green

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Gary Ackerman

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Lord Chesterfield

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I was seven years old. What do you know when you're seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we'd been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home.

Anne Rice

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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