"When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies."

Unknown, Source | Lies and Lying | 1 bookmarks

"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Millet, Kate | Women | 4 bookmarks

"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

Whitehead, Alfred North | Action | 1 bookmarks

"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | Happiness | 1 bookmarks

"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

Mcginley, Phyllis | Christmas | 2 bookmarks

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida | Law and Lawyers | 1 bookmarks

"Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue."

Taylor, Jeremy | Profanity | 1 bookmarks

"Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world."

James, William | Spirit and Spirituality | 1 bookmarks

"Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist."

Stallone, Sylvester | Violence | 1 bookmarks

"The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents."

Lockwood, Belva | Precedents | 2 bookmarks