Who fears to offend takes the first step to please.
—Colley Cibber (English Playwright)
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
—Agnes de Mille (American Dancer)
If you advertise an interest in buying collies, a lot of people will call hoping to sell you their cocker spaniels.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
—Pierre Bayle (French Philosopher)
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
—George Jean Nathan (American Drama Critic)
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
—John Irving (American Novelist)
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (American Journalist)
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
—John C. Calhoun (American Head of State)
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
—Irvin S. Cobb (American Humorist)
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
—Christopher Hampton (British Playwright, Screenwriter)
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
—Bill Maher (American Comedian, TV Personality)
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
—Will Durant (American Historian)
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
—Woodrow Wyatt (British Journalist, Politician)
Beauty is God’s handwriting.
—Charles Kingsley (English Clergyman)