The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.-RVM

If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.

It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.

My girlfriend is despicable. I just found out she flirted with my brother, during my mom's funeral, while I was asleep.

It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." (Jace)

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.