Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

Stephen King

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Sir Richard Steele

I wrote a poem to the moon But no one noticed it;Although I hoped that late or soonSomeone would praise a bitIts purity and grace forlone,Its beauty tulip-cool...But as my poem died still-born,I felt a fool.I wrote a verse of vulgar trendSpiced with an oath or two;I tacked a snapper at the endAnd called it Dan McGrew.I spouted it to bar-room boys,Full fifty years away;Yet still with rude and ribald noiseIt lives today.'Tis bitter truth, but there you are-That's how a name is made;Write of a rose, a lark, a star,You'll never make the grade.But write of gutter and of grime,Of pimp and prostitute,The multitude will read your rhyme,And pay to boot.So what's the use to burn and bleedAnd strive for beauty's sake?No one your poetry will read,Your heart will only break.But set your song in vulgar pitch,If rhyme you will not rue,And make your heroine a bitch...Like Lady Lou.

Robert William Service, My Cross

Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.

Sherry Argov

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Kate Millet

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Rebecca West

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

James Buchan

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

William Shakespeare

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau