The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

David Ricardo

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

Richelle Mead

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

Abraham Lincoln

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

William Makepeace Thackeray

The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it

Petronius

Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.

Arnold Horshak

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence

Samuel Johnson

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

What we need is a generation of peace.

Jawaharlal Nehru

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Gertrude Stein

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

John Green