When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.

Miranda July

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Josh Billings

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound

Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Henry David Thoreau

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Marcel Duchamp

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

Portia de Rossi

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Frederick William Robertson

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Adam Savage

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

Stedman Graham