Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Thomas Kempis

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

James Truslow Adams

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Colin Quinn

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

J. Kindleberger

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Peggy Noonan

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Frederic Raphael

Most games are lost, not won.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heinrich Heine

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Jeb Bush

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan