You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.

Juvenal

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

William Shakespeare

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

Diane Lane

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Jodi Picoult

The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev

Voltaire

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Samuel Johnson

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

Ian MacKaye

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Stuart Cloete

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson