Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Mark Twain

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

Cassandra Clare

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Henry David Thoreau

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

John Green

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Bill Cosby

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Fran Lebowitz

Writing poetry is a state of free float

Margaret Atwood

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Joel Rosenberg

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

John Maynard Keynes

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Stephen Fry

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

Bainbridge Colby