Why would I spend my time writing software in a language below the grade of love, if I can use one that makes my brain sing?

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Alexander Maclaren

Everyone has a past, but that's just it-it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Nicholas Sparks

You must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

Kirk Cameron

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Ansel Adams

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

Gary Bauer

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Jessamyn West

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Samuel Johnson