The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
David Brinkley
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Tony Robbins
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members, but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it, from whence it is evident that the first care of him who would found a city truly deserving that name and not nominally so must be to have his citizens virtuous.
Aristotle
You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
Henny Youngman
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers the House and the Senate but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard
