The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.

Demi Moore

He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat.

Kurt Vonnegut

If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?

Jim Fiebig

We have made the Reich by propaganda.

Paul Joseph Goebbels

Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?

Anonymous

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

Quand je n'ai pas de bleu, je mets du rouge.

Picasso

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

Ayelet Waldman

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Walter Benjamin

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

Julie Burchill

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

William Shakespeare