"Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy." Frances Burney D'Arblay
"Say to the seceded States: 'Wayward sisters depart in peace.'" General Winfield Scott
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And I say my glory was I had such friends."
William Butler Yeats
"English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas."
"Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere." Dorothy L. Sayers
"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king."
Paul Lynde
"There is no reason to repeat bad history." Eleanor Holmes Norton
"'His mother worked in a factory, and his father was a cop. He probably wouldn't know a dinner fork from a pitchfork,' Lauren said. Jesse grunted. 'Might make for an interesting dinner companion.'" My Sister!
"I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy." Laura Kightlinger