Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

Milan Kundera

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Herbert Spencer

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Kofi Annan

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Dame Flora Robson

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

Charles Monroe Schulz, Peanuts (

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Lee Bristol

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Larry Elder

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Ernest Hemingway

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

Ingrid Newkirk