All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

P. J. Harvey

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Flannery O'Connor

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

Pam Grier

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.

C. JoyBell C.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting

William Randolph

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Jack Nicklaus

After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back anteroom opening from the yard; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind's eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years.

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Adam Garcia

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus