Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. Demonax

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim… her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the...

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)

Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.) Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock...

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you–the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she...