The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Fire is the most tolerable third party

Henry David Thoreau

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Woodrow Wilson

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

Nikki Sixx

What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

Lewis Black

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Alfred Marshall

My grandpa notes the world's worn cogsAnd says we're going to the dogs.His grandpa in his house of logsSaid things were going to the dogs.His grandpa in the Flemish bogsSaid things were going to the dogs.His grandpa in his hairy togsSaid things were going to the dogs.But this is what I wish to state.The dogs have had an awful wait.

Anon., The Hymn of the Pessimist

I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiring tremendously as I grew up. And that would be Spencer Tracy... and Bogart and that particular approach to the work. The stillness, the economy, the grace of that work, so they would have been then, my heroes on the screen.

Ben Kingsley

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland