There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Raymond Chandler

War is a contagion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Imelda Marcos

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Alice Walker

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.

Jeannette Rankin

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

Source Unknown

This notion is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?.

Michel de Montaigne, Essays

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death

Benjamin Franklin

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

Sir Winston Churchill

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Joseph Conrad

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard