The ripest fruit first falls

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

Thomas Carlyle

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

Studs Terkel

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

William Drummond

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Gore Vidal

A lot of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.the truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothings lasts forever.if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.

Chitralekha Paul

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Eric Hoffer

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

She sounds very beautiful and mysterious. I say this because you told me she is beautiful, and little else, leaving the rest to mystery, and thereby making her very mysterious.

Tom Alford