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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

Marquis De Vauvenargues

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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Winston Churchill

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller

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“The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.”

--Louis Aragon

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"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny."

Steven Wright

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.


-Conrad Aiken

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"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."

E. O. Wilson

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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.


-H. G. Wells

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"Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?""

Fran Lebowitz

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“It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands”

-Spanish Proverb

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"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

Maya Angelou

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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.


--Rumi

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"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close."

William Wycherley

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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

--Neil Armstrong

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"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

Margaret Mead

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“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.”

--Emil Ludwig

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"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."

Gail Sheehy

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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.


--Susan B. Anthony

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"Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant."

Henry David Thoreau

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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

--Heraclitus

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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Oscar Wilde

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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Muhammad Ali

Sorry to end with the same word, but I liked the quote =(

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"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

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"One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and watch me."

John Barrymore

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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

Archimedes

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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Oscar Wilde

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.


--Thomas Jefferson

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"In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes."

Randall Terry

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"I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love."

Robert Tizon

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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.



-Albert Einstein

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"Whatever is fair in love and war is also fair in crimefighting."

Batman

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Remember, in crime-fighting always keep your sights raised.

-Batman

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"I always loved saying, space time condominium... Space time continuum, yes sorry. Well you see the problems that are raised when you have to deal with this kind of dialogue?"

Patrick Stewart

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I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.


-Robert Mitchum

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"I\'m no model lady. A model\'s just an imitation of the real thing."

Mae West

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I don\'t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.


-Coco Chanel

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"A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself."

Jose Marti

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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Mohandas Gandhi

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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.


--Erich Fromm

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"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."

Salvador Dali

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"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."

Steven Wright