Drop dead-but first get permit

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

I know I could be Anything, But i rather Be Myself.

I have earned the money and changed the nappies!

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.

No stream rises higher than its source

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.