We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

is a denial of this world, a severance from reality, an abdication, a means of redemption from, not for, life.

Isaac Leib Peretz

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

C.S. Lewis

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robert Browning

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Harvey

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

William Shakespeare

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

Elizabeth Olsen

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

W. Somerset Maugham