How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Thorstein Veblen

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Flannery O'Connor

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Pierre Corneille

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

Kin Hubbard

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucker

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Henry Miller

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

Erika Christensen

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Bo Bennett

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Gore Vidal

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Barry Goldwater

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats