Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

Look where YOU have been

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.