"Every man has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
"These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell." Rebecca Harding Davis
"She lies! No girl could get that much dirt on her knees in only eighteen years."
  • Margaret Talmadge
    (??/??/1870 – 09/29/1933)
    US actor (mother of Constance), doubting the age, among other things, of a chorus girl
"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen." Lula Carson Smith
"It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful." Wystan Hugh Auden
"A lot of people my age are dead at the present time." Charles Dillon Stengel
"If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder."
"Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here."