When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot Than pine in a palace alone.

George Whyte-Melville

When I was eight, I played Little League. I was on first; Istole third; I went straight across. Earlier that week, Ilearned that the shortest distance between two points was adirect line. I took advantage of that knowledge.

Steven Wright

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

David Herbert Lawrence

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

John Burroughs

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Hattie McDaniel

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Chris Hughes

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Carl Sagan

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Nick Lampson

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers

Victor Hugo