That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

Andy Warhol

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

General George Patton

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Elias Canetti

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Trishelle Cannatella

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Piet Hein

Humor is reason gone mad.

Groucho Marx

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Lynda Barry

What ills from beauty spring

Samuel Johnson

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Shimon Peres