We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

De Delloy

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

W. L. George

I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. back through time finds me trouble enough!

A.A. Bell

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

Fidel Castro, "The Economist", A

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

Heather O'Rourke

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Roy Orbison

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

James Welch