Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

Jef Mallett

I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.

Rosamund Pike

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

David Wilkerson

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

David Beaty

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea

Aldous Huxley

Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

Greg Louganis

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

Mal Pancoast

When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

Michael Weatherly

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

W. Stanley Jevons