The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

Paul Gauguin

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

Mary Steenburgen

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

Nikki Giovanni

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Larry Hagman

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Otway

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Liberty guest amiable, Plants both elbows on the table

Voltaire

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

Ruth Reichl

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

William F. Buckley

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Elbert Hubbard

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Solomon Schechter