We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards

Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.

Irenaeus of Lyons

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

David Harold Fink

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

David Ogilvy

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Ernest Hemingway

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Louise Bernikow

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

Miles Teller

Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

Miranda July

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

P. J. O'Rourke

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

Carl Sagan

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.

Robert J. Ringer