Matilda told such dreadful lies,It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,Had kept a strict regard for truth,Attempted to believe Matilda:The effort very nearly killed her.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

J. C. Watts

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Harry Dean Stanton

[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.

Massimo Pigliucci

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Source Unknown

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Annie Dillard, Total Eclipse Tea

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Simone de Beauvoir

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Bertrand Russell