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.

Lawrence had done it in a way, and Joyce. But I think it's an important thing to do now and then, to describe the sex act as our descent, or adventure, into a primordial or strange world, having very little to do with how we look in suits or what our educations have been. It's a well of darkness, as it were, that leaves you refreshed.

John Updike, (on the topic of wr

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

John Key

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Samuel Johnson

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

Isabelle Adjani

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Sugar Ray Robinson

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Neil Gaiman

A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Abraham Lincoln

Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

Vernon Howard

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

William Shakespeare

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Andrea Dworkin

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Mahatma Gandhi