Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

Robert Stack

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Heywood Broun

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

Chang-rae Lee

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Bill Keller

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Calvin Coolidge

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Simone Weil

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De SaintExupery

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth. And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

It is in this darkness that I have found all light somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.

Coco J. Ginger

I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral was a stone-faced secret police chief, personally groomed to be the successor to the decrepit Francisco Franco. His car blew up, killing only him and his chauffeur with a carefully planted charge, and not only was the world well rid of another fascist, but, more important, the whole scheme of extending Franco's rule was vaporized in the same instant. The dictator had to turn instead to Crown Prince Juan Carlos, who turned out to be the best Bourbon in history and who swiftly dismantled Franco's entire system. If this action was 'terrorism,' it had something to be said for it. Everyone I knew in Spain made a little holiday in their hearts when the gruesome admiral went sky-high.

Christopher Hitchens