If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it-it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Nicholas Sparks

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Munshi Premchand

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

David Allan Coe

If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known.Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role players, every one of us. We say that we feel things we do not feel. We say things we did not do. We say that we believe things we do not believe. We pretend that we are loving when we are full of hostility. We pretend that we are calm and indifferent when we are actually trembling with anxiety and fear.Of course we cannot tell even the people we know and love everything we think or feel. But our mistakes are nearly always in the other direction. Even in families -- good families -- people wear masks a great deal of the time.

Sidney Jourard, The Transparent

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Joel Hodgson

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Kin Hubbard

The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people.

James Dye

If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a object. in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'.

C.S. Lewis

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson