Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Dick Gregory

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Charles Chaplin

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Paul Ambroise Valery

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Ron Silver

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do.

J.K. Rowling

Italy will always have the best food.

Diane von Furstenberg

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Phaedrus

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Abraham Lincoln

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin