Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Edgar Quinet

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Calvin Klein

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

Johann von Goethe

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Samuel Butler

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

Samuel Johnson

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Chris Christie

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Mark Twain

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

Pat Benatar

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Gianni Agnelli

All people are insane, he said. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Kurt Vonnegut