I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Dan Lipinski

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb

A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

Otto Weininger

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Harry S Truman

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Bobby Darin

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Joseph Addison

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

Dave Attell

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

James Russell Lowell

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Donald E. Westlake

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't

Ernest Rutherford

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

Jodi Picoult