The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

Chris Evans

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

Lewis H. Lapham

If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

Irving Layton

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Robert Orben

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Leonard Sweet

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

John Flavel

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Neils Bohr

No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

Cassandra Clare