Never spend your money before you have earned it.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

Most of man's problems in the modern world arise from the constant and unavoidable exposure to the stimuli of urban and industrial civilization, the varied aspects of environmental pollution, the physiological disturbances associated with sudden changes in ways of life, the estrangement from the conditions and natural cycles under which human evolution took place, the emotional trauma and the paradoxical solitude in congested cities, the monotony, boredom and compulsory leisure

Ren, So Human an Animal, p. 216,

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Terry Eagleton

Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations six if one went to Harvard.

Edgar R. Fiedler

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

Cassandra Clare

I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.

Oscar Wilde

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Arthur Smith

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Gary Bauer

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard