In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Cyril Connolly

You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.

Rob Sheffield

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Bernard Mandeville

SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak.

John Donne, To Sir Henry Wotton,

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

David Suzuki

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

John Gay

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

Carl Nielsen

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Ernest Hemingway

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Anton Chekhov

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

Carson Kressley

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

Sarah Dessen