A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

John Jay Chapman, Practical Agit

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Prince Philip Edinburgh

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

William Shakespeare

But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

Wanda Sykes

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Aishwarya Rai

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Bianca Jagger

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?

Emily Giffin

If justice is removed... the great, the immense fabric of human society...must in a moment crumble into atoms.

Adam Smith

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Jon Crosby

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Lord Acton

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

Vivienne Westwood