The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

H. L. Mencken

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

Bernard Wolfe

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

Blanche Lincoln

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Francis Bacon

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.

Iain Duncan Smith

Life is a gift and a challenge.

Jay Payleitner

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

Zoe Lister-Jones

Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Calvin Coolidge

But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided.A continent for better or worse divided.The next day he sailed for England, where he quickly forgotThe case as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,Afraid, as he told his Club, that he might get shot....penned after Lord Mountbatten entrusted Sir Cyril Radcliffe, with drawing up the boundaries between India & Pakistan.

W. H. Auden, poem titled Partiti

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

Friedrich Nietzsche