One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

Gerhard Kocher

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th

Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

Robert G. Ingersoll

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Dan Rather

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

Mark Twain

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

David Herbert Lawrence