The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. in the back you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.

Steven Wright

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Virginia Woolf

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Cassandra Clare

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

Donny Osmond

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

Friedrich Nietzsche