To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

— Robert Menzies

“I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.”

— Susan Eloïse Hinton

We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings .…

— Susane Colasanti

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should…

— Devendra Banhart

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

— Chevy Chase

“The old dead coals fell to the wayside, warm ones sat glowing weakly on the edges; but the hot new ones, red and burning,…

— Babara Wood

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

— Montague Burton

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

Take as long as you need to overcome something, whether it takes you for long, that is your time. Take as long as necessary.

— Shirley

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

— Albert Einstein

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

— Robert Breault

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

— Sid Caesar

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer