For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Bryant H. McGill

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

W. C. Fields

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Lionel Trilling

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

Billy Connolly

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Sean Parker

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

George Bernard Shaw

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Jean Francois Regnard

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Caleb Colton

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.

Alison Croggon

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg