Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Calvin Trillin

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is an inquisitive age, and if we insist on piling up beyond a certain height knowledge which is in itself mere trash and lumber to a man whose life is to be one long fight with death and disease, there will be some sharp questions asked by and by.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Scholasti

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Peter De Vries

Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government.

William O. Douglas, Laird v. Tat

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Eminem

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

Henry Reed

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

John Piper

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

Aldous Huxley

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Paul Harris