Poverty consist in feeling poor.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather that she was happy, than herself to be so

Jane Austen

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Thomas Mcguane

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

John Bruton

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

Stephen King

J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée,Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer,Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.

Jean Racine

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

H. L. Mencken

I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

Queen's Mother Elizabeth

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw