Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Helen Rowland

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Koenig

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

Marc Chagall

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Amelia Barr

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Edna Ferber

The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts

Florence Sabin

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen