Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Hull

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

Shana Alexander

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

Paulo Coelho

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Nicolas Cage

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Nadia Comaneci

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick the Great

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Merlin Olsen

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides