Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

Curt Schilling

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By

Love will make a man do some funny things, like tightrope walking across a telephone wire, rather than simply picking up the phone to call or text.

Jarod Kintz

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

John Cheever

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can

Elaine May, . As quoted in Reel

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Cat Stevens

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Bill Gothard