Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

Ally Carter

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb

Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

Jeff Melvoin

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Louis Aragon

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it

George Bernard Shaw

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

William Penn

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Amy Carter

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3

Bible

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

Melanie Laurent

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,

John Stuart Mill, "First publish