Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

Samuel Butler

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Richard Armour

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

Cassandra Clare

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

David Brinkley

She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.

Laini Taylor

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Lewis Black

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Bryan Lindsay

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Colin Wilson

Beauty is a fading flower

Proverb

The existentialist

JeanPaul Sartre, Existentialism