The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

The more vividly we imagine the greatness and the beauty of what we love, the more timid we are. - Stendhal

Andre Maurois

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

Marcelene Cox

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ramsey Clark

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rob Sheffield

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

George Orwell

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.

Joe Nichols

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Rush Limbaugh

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

William H. Macy