One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

Sarah McLachlan

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

J. Michael Straczynski

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

George Eliot

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

Clement Mok

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Charles E. Popplestone

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

Norman Jewison

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S. Truman

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Oliver Wendell Holmes