My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

Leo Tolstoy

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

Stephen Daldry

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

Jeffrey Kluger

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Mark Twain

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Nelson Algren

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Aldo Leopold

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Cassandra Clare

O rose, who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,--Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A De

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

Kin Hubbard

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Plato