A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Oscar Wilde

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

Carnie Wilson

Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Give back my book and take my kiss instead.Was it my enemy or my friend I heard,What a big book for such a little head!Come, I will show you now my newest hat,And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that.I never again shall tell you what I think.I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;You will not catch me reading any more:I shall be called a wife to pattern by;And some day when you knock and push the door,Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

Ouida

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, The Rol

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Charles Edwin Carruthers

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

James Madison

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare