There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Bertrand Russell

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Frank Sinatra

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Aldous Huxley

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

William Shakespeare

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.

Edgar A. Guest

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?The guy who wrote that song wrote everything.

Steven Wright

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Noelie Alito

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

Robert Capa

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad

Samuel Johnson

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Sarah Dessen

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

William Makepeace Thackeray