My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

The world is passing through troubling times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress.

Peter the Hermit, attributed, pr

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

E. Lockhart

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Flanders

Open confession is good for the soul.

Scottish Proverb

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Steven Wright

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Voltaire

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

Paul Klee

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

John Green

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow