Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!

Steve Martin

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills).

Albert Einstein

The sacred lamp of dayNow dipt in western clouds his parting day.

William Falconer, The Shipwreck

I'm very happy with my life and I wouldn't take back any mistake I've made because it's made me who I am today. I don't walk around pretending that I'm perfect, so I don't think that anyone else should hold me to that and not expect me to fuck up occasionally. Because I do, and you do, too.

Nicole Richie

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal

The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this...is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.

Galileo Galilei, Two New Science

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

Mariah Carey

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Andrew Bernstein

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

Joyce Brothers

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Mason Cooley

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Thomas Fuller