"Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago." John Wesley
"This world is a comedy for those who think, but a tragedy for those who feel." Horace Walpole
"Woman played her part in early California by reason of her absence."
"Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines." David Herbert Lawrence
"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash." Emily Carr
"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent."
"If only Bapu [Gandhi] knew the cost of setting him up in poverty."
"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." Serge Gainsbourg
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." Henry Steele Commager
"I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it." Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
"I've always been a kind person—but you know—it's very seldom a day pass when I don't cry about something. I tell you—I'm a news freak—but watching the news'll bring tears to your eyes. All the conflict out there. The whole world is bleeding. Somebody need to put a bandaid—some way to stop the blood." Hank Ballard
"A mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady."
Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge