Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

C.S. Lewis

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

Robert A.F. Thurman

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

Orson Scott Card

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Source Unknown

Oh to be young and in love (with 8 Chinese concubines).

Christopher Moore

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

V. S. Naipaul

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher

I miss those times when I hadn't a clue.

Marina Leigh Duff