"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers." Sir Joshua Reynolds
"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters." John Keats
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." John Quincy Adams
"Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics." Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Say anything you like, but don't say that I 'like' to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch. Just say I like to pinch babies and twist their legs. And get drunk." Mabel Normand
"One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it." Dame Nellie Melba
"Intelligence is nothing without delight." Paul Claudel
"If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!" Arthur Stanley Jefferson
"Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it." Fannie Hurst
"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing." Jessamyn West
Thanks to the other Jessamyn
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." James Alfred Wight
"Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is. "