This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

Source Unknown

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Ambrose Bierce

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

Voltaire

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

Demetri Martin

Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.

Francis Quarles

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

Aldous Huxley

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nnamdi Azikiwe

I wonder what spendthrift chose to spillSuch a bright gold under my windowsill!Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?Bless me! It's a daffodil!

Celia Thaxter

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Mike Murdock

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Kurt Angle