There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Theodore Roosevelt

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

Christopher Hitchens

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

Sarah Addison Allen

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

George Bernard Shaw

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Publilius Syrus

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Bertrand Russell

A rotten case abides no handling

William Shakespeare

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Horace Mann

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Horace

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila

Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted.

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