Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Karl Marx

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Benjamin Franklin

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

David Sarnoff

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bliss Carman

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

Lena Dunham

I always think they're rather charming-looking, the Burmese. They have such splendid bodies! Just think what sights you'd see in England if people went about half naked as they do here!

George Orwell

Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.

Julie Metz

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Henry Ford

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

Antoine Arnauld

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

Sam Harris