Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

John Andrew Holmes

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Samuel Johnson

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Benjamin Disraeli

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die

Gautama Buddha

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Ally Sheedy

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Joe Manchin

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

John Drinkwater

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Stiles

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

Lea Michele

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson