A relationship to me is never about the romance.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Samuel Johnson

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'

Mitch Hedberg

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Lech Walesa

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Kevyn Aucoin

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Doris Lessing

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's an example of what the whole of New Guinea was like 50,000 years ago when there was no hunting, no impact of logging and no environmental desecration. There're very few places left on earth where there has been so little human impact.

Stephen Richards

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Elizabeth Gaskell