"In the middle of my life I awoke in a dark wood, for I had lost my way along the true path." - Dante Alighieri

"You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground the way the Roman Legions did, by putting your young men into the mud." - T.R. Fehrenbach

"Society attacks early when the individual is helpless." - B.F. Skinner

"Heaven goes by favor.  If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." - Mark Twain

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." - Samuel Ullman

"In order to act you must be somewhat insane.  A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking." - Georges Clemenceau

"For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent." - Marcus Fabius Quintillanus

" 'Come to the edge,' he said.  They said, 'We are afraid.'  'Come to the edge,' he said.  They came.  He pushed them... and they flew." - Guilluame Apollonaire

"Necessity is not an established fact; but an interpretation." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry." - John Donne, "The Triple Fool"

"The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich

"No soldier starts a war - they only give their lives to it.  Wars are started by you and me, by bankers and politicians, excitable women, newspaper editors, clergymen who are ex-pacifists, and Congressmen with vertebrae of putty. The youngsters yelling in the streets, poor kids, are the ones who pay the price." - Father Francis P. Duffy

"...when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained." - Samuel Gompers

"The unfinished is nothing." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Lovers.  Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing." - Alice Munro

"We're all someone's daughter; we're all someone's son.  How long can we look at each other down the barrel of a gun?" - Rebecca St. James

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France

"To err is human - but it feels divine." - Mae West

"Every little girl knows about love.  It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases." - Francoise Sagan

"By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope?  If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't." - George Bernard Shaw

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I." - Michel de Montaigne

"Scratch a lover and find a foe." - Dorothy Parker

"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind can't find comfort in it." - Seneca

"It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armour." - Margaret Fuller

"The superior man is distressed by his want of ability." - Confucius

"A beautiful young man came up to me and offered me some salted peanuts and he said, 'I wish they were emeralds,' as he handed me the peanuts, and that was the end of my heart.  I never got it back." - Helen Hayes

"If things were always what they seemed, how impoverished would be the imagination of man." - Laurence Durrell

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." - Washington Irving

"The tree is known by its fruit." - Matthew 12:33, The Bible

"I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone ax." - Susan Brownmiller

"People do very strange things in love and war." - John Ribovich

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - Gloria Steinem

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." - Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

"It's a great ability to conceal one's ability." - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucald

"A person has two legs and one sense of humor, and if you are faced with the choice, it's better to lose a leg." - Charles Lindner

"A kitten is the rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom." - Robert Southey

"Poetry is an orphan of silence.  The words never quite equal the experience behind them." - Charles Simic

"Too many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt.  We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them." - Craig Rice

"Where there is great Love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." - Mistinguette

"War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off." - Karl Kraus

"I hold that companionship is a matter of mutual weaknesses. We like that man or woman best who has the same faults we have. - George Jean Nathan

"I am happy now that Charles calls on my bed chamber less frequently than of old.  As it is I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England." - Lady Alice Hillingdon

"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth." - George Prentice

"Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.  Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?" - Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

"The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.  He is the very basis of civilized society." - Oscar Wilde

"All that we do is done with an eye to something else." - Aristotle