One half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are excluded, like Helots, from the rights of representation, as if society were instituted for the soil, and not for the men inhabiting it; or one half of these could dispose of the rights and the will of the other half, without their consent.

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

Nikki Dalton

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Kurt Vonnegut

Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates beyond the place where the eyes can see.

Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, C

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

John Hicks

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Chuck Palahniuk

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jane Goodall

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury, "Reader's Digest",

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Drew Carey

Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.

Sorin Cerin

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

Janeane Garofalo