The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

Neil Gaiman

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.

Joseph Addison

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Rudyard Kipling

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Ambrose Bierce

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Aesop

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Vartan Gregorian

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.... We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Edward Abbey

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Alvar Aalto

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

Anne Bancroft