Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'mNarcissus.

Steven Wright

There have been so many great moments, and I feel so blessed every day.

Vusi Mahlasela

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Carl Sagan

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Robert Bork

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

Lactantius

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Gregory Bateson

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.

Aldous Huxley

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

H. L. Mencken