We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Elphaba, where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it--- history.

Winnie Holzman, Wicked (the musi

A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.

Henry Morgan

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

Ed Koch

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Jonathan Kozol

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

George Eliot

Life is too short to learn German.

R. Porson

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Maya Angelou

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

John Ruskin