So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

Germaine Greer

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

The universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now.

Joey Lawsin

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne

Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.

Stephen Richards

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat,Untouched thy honied blossoms blow,Unseen thy little branches greet;...No roving foot shall crush thee here,...No busy hand provoke a tear.By Nature's self in white arrayed,She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,And planted here the gaurdian shade,And sent soft waters murmuring by;...Thus quietly thy summer goes,...Thy days declinging to repose.Smit with those charms, that must decay,I grieve to see your future doom;They died--nor were those flowers more gay,The flowers that did in Eden bloom;...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power...Shall leave no vestige of this flower.From morning suns and evenign dewsAt first thy little being came:If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same;...The space between, is but an hour,...The frail duration of a flower.

Philip Freneau, The Wild HoneySu

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Rowan Atkinson

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

Bonnie Blair

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Henry Miller

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Chris Patten