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- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Taming of the Shrew
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
- Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
- Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), "Moby Dick"
- I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man.
- Bill Hicks, Comedy routine
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