We see things as we are, not as they are.

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

Alex Flinn

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Mark Twain

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Peter Handke

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

Hector Hugh Munro

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

Ethel Merman

Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?

Orson Scott Card

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now

Ronald Reagan

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Ray Bradbury, From the foreward

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Gene Tierney

Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Friedrich Nietzsche