I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John A. Hannah

Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

Bernd Heinrich

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To understand life, and love it to its depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece; and each of us can hardly occupy his time so greatly as with one other; we have only one true neighbor down here.

Henri Barbusse

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel

Aristotle

I rant, therefore I am.

Dennis Miller

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

Dee Dee Ramone

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

Ronald Reagan

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Milan Kundera

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare