The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Phillips Brooks

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

Source Unknown

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

Thomas Paine

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Roger Kahn

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

C.S. Lewis

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Charlie Sheen

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Pierre Corneille

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard