So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Ally Carter

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Frank Zappa

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

Giosu, A Soldier's Confidences w

It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)

Albert Einstein

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

Oscar Wilde

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Francis Bacon

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Dennis Miller

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are, Jonathan; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it, and you'll survive.

Cassandra Clare

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

Jon Crosby

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Jean Cocteau

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

Joe Shuster