[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Donald Trump

I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.

John Fante

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Larry Craig

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

William Shakespeare

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

Natalie Coughlin

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Barbra Streisand

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied quietly. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away the grief; that is what they are for'

Terry Pratchett

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Samuel Butler

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire