An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Jane Austen

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Jane Austen

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Imelda Marcos

None but a mule denies his family.

Arabic Proverb

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Rick Perry

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Robert Charles Wilson

Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Samuel Johnson

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Oliver Goldsmith

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

Martina Navratilova

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Hosea Ballou