Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

William Shakespeare

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Joan Rivers

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: Look at this Godawful mess.

Art Buchwald, 1970

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable -- or at least deserving of support.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Happiness is not the absence of problems it's the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, ch.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

Jackie Kennedy

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

Louis Farrakhan

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Ellen Barkin

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Jodie Foster

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski