One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Dennis Prager

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Bernstein

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joseph Joubert

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

John L. Motley

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Maximilian Schell

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

Steve Maraboli

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Henry Ford

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

George Orwell

That man is idle who can do something better

Ralph Waldo Emerson