Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Benjamin Franklin, 1759

These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

Leo Tolstoy

If you are happy with the way things are in the schools, and your children are happy and fulfilled, fine. I'm glad you are happy, and that the schools are doing what you want them to for you. But there are lots of people out there who are very unhappy, and it's to those people that I'm offering this other choice, and saying that they don't have to just accept what's imposed on them. It takes a lot of determination, and some hard work, but you can teach your own!

John Holt

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Craig Thompson

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Samuel Johnson

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those strange, half-naked beings one glimpses through cellar windows, whose wild-seeming cries floating out of those depths always makes a painful impression. In the morning, one sees these pale men, still white with flour, carrying a loaf under one arm, going off to rest and gather new strength to renew their hard and useful labor when night comes again. I have always highly esteemed the brave and humble workers who labor all night to produce those soft but crusty loaves that look more like cake than bread.

Alexander Dumas

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.?

Richelle E. Goodrich

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

H. L. Mencken

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Julie Burchill