One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it

Terry Pratchett

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the a-s.

Frank Zappa

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

Rowan D. Williams

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Lord Greville

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

Billy Baldwin

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Edmund Husserl

Charm is more than beauty.

Yiddish Proverb

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Jane Rule

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal