What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.The book is becoming rare but some can still be found on the internet. It was printed and hard bound using private funds. Number of copies unknown. It bears no Library of Congress number. See also, Brann and the Iconoclast University of Texas Press, author Charles Carver, date 1957

William Cowper Brann, Brann, the

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I want to get a tatoo of myself on my entire body, only 2taller.

Steven Wright

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Joe Laurie Jr.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

Elizabeth Edwards

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Khaled Hosseini

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old

Martin Luther King Jr.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

Marco Rubio

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Greenspan

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.