What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

Anais Nin

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

Virginia Woolf

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

John Steinbeck

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Frank Dane

Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

Voltaire

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

Andrew P. Harris

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful

Mark Twain

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Abraham Lincoln

Thus we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates, and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us. What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies! Every mother wishes one son a genius, though all the rest should be mediocre. But a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man. His attractions warp us from our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides. Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;- other great men, new qualities, counterweights and checks on each other. We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again. They cry up the virtues of George Washington,- Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation. But it is human nature's indispensable defense. The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complet

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson