If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

Jay Leno

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Charles Dickens

Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary, but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are perfectly distracted.

Benjamin Franklin

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Friedrich von Schiller

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Edward F. Halifax

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Larry Niven

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.

Jodi Picoult

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she hasn

Marilyn Monroe

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

Victor Hugo

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Jeanne Calment

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

Jimmy Chamberlin