We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

W. S. Gilbert

The earth laughs in flowers.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame That at the whisper of Love's name, Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise Your angry head and stand at gaze?

Robert Graves

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

Oscar Wilde

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Friedrich Nietzsche

People talk about how fast life can go from good to bad. How on day you're happy, everything is going fine, and then something happens. Someone dies or someone leaves. There's an illness or an accident. Life as you know it slips away. But it can got the other way too. You can go from god-awful to pretty OK in a single day. That's what happened to us, and it was just as jarring.

Laura M. Flynn

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

Al Michaels

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Tupac Shakur

A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends

Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

Sally Schneider

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

Shirley Manson