Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. (Isak Dinesen)
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses (Juvenal)
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education. (Barnaby C. Keeney)
I am...a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. (John M. Ford)
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. (Edward Gibbon)
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. (Pilpay)
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. (Hoshang N. Akhtar)
I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing. (Charles Bukowski)
If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement) (Lyndon B. Johnson)
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. (Ernest Hemingway)
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Orson Welles)
There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. (George Gordon Byron)
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. (Greg Evans)
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. (Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville)
Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly. (Epictetus)
'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around. (John W. Vessey, Jr.)
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. (Michel de Montaigne)
It made our hair stand up in panic fear. (Sophocles)
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. (J. R. Platt)