What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness

Nirmala

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

W. Winwood Reade

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

Terry Pratchett

Be and not seem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?source: http://www.twainquotes.com/

Mark Twain, Following the Equato

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Charles Lamb

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

Benjamin Franklin

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

C.S. Lewis

Taste is tiring like good company.

Francis Picabia

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

Robert Collier

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld