DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

W. Somerset Maugham

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

Aldous Huxley

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Major

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

John Ashbery

Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.

William B. Given

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark...To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.

Victor Hugo

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

John Green

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Richard Milhous Nixon

My favorite animal is steak.

Fran Lebowitz