"Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it."
  • Charles Caleb Cotton
    (04/28/1630 – 02/16/1687)
    English writer (there is a Charles Caleb Colton from the 18th century who I may be mis-citing here, but I don't find specific dates, so will leave this one here for now -s)
"A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue." James Monroe
"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are."
"I've got a lot of ham in me." Lionel Barrymore
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." Harper Lee
"He's the only man I know who could look at the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated and complain because the bathing suits weren't flame retardant." James Baker
"Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them." Diane Johnson
"You Americans, you treat the Third World the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields." Saddam Hussein
"A key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is 'Snakes and Ladders' with greased rungs."
"Say what you will, when Dan Quayle was in the National Guard, not one Viet Cong got past Muncie, Indiana." James Douglas Muir Leno
"My ambition is to be happy." Penelope Cruz