Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Dan Savage

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Douglas Yates

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

John Green

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

H. L. Mencken

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

Luke Bryan

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

Mahatma Gandhi

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Eugene Ionesco

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

Marilyn Monroe

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Allen Ginsberg

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson