It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

Louisa May Alcott

I am not willing to risk the lives of German soldiers for countries whose names we cannot spell properly.

Volker Ruhe

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

Karrie Webb

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

Katherine Johnson

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

Alton Brown

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.

Emilia Wickstead

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

George Orwell