Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Merton Miller

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

Danica McKellar

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

Jodi Picoult

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Thomas Fuller

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

Liz Phair

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

Source Unknown

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Roland Barthes

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

Proverb

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Ronald Reagan