Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Sir Matthew Hale, from "A Leter

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Galileo Galilei

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Martin Luther King Jr.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Little pots soon boil over.

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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

Carson Kressley

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

James Barrie

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

Christopher Hitchens

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar