As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Bobby Scott

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Henry Knox

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Marquis de Sade

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Benjamin Franklin

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson, attributed

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Tom Stoppard

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

Vivienne Westwood