There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Beauty is not in the size of clothes you wear or how you look. Beauty is what size your heart is. Just be you

Vincent Castronova

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Francis Bacon

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Emil Cioran

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

Julianna Baggott

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Janine Turner

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Oscar Wilde

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Phyllis McGinley

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Benjamin Franklin