Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,Th' indifferent judge between the high and low.

Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Walter Bagehot

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Charles Kingsley

Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.

Terry Pratchett

I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.

William Shakespeare

I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.

Charles Bukowski

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

Oscar Wilde

I don't care about money.

Lady Gaga

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Charles Ives

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayefsky