Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.

Abraham Lincoln

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Mitch Hedberg

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

Eva Mendes

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Tom Glazer

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Jimmy Carter

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D Eisenhower

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

C. S. Lewis

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas Wolfe

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Elizabeth I