It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

George Carlin

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

Stephen King

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

William Shakespeare

In a state of conflict or a conflicted state.

Christopher Hitchens

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

...Federal aid promotes the idea that federal school money is 'free' money, and thus gives the people a distorted picture of the cost of education. I was distressed to find that five out of six high school and junior college students recently interviewed in Phoenix said they favored federal aid because it would mean more money for local schools and ease the financial burden on Arizona taxpayers. The truth, of course, is that the federal government has no funds except those it extracts from the taxpayers who resided in the various States. The money that the federal government pays to State X for education has been taken from the citizens of State X in federal taxes and comes back to them, minus the Washington brokerage fee.

Barry Goldwater, Conscience of a

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Virgil

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

Yasunari Kawabata

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

Carl Sagan

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Jerry Saltz

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

John Boyne