To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash

Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate,
intimate dance together
and nothing matters more
than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.

-- Amy Bloom

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

-- Cecil B. DeMille

I believe that's a metaphor, a metaphor for what the country is looking for. They're looking for a sleepover with people they like!

Joe Biden, candidate for Vice President, 9/14/2008, on CBS

"One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy," Finney said. "I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place. I know that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me."

Our teeming population is the strongest evidence our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us from its natural elements. Our wants grow more and more keen and our complaints more bitter in all mouths, while nature fails in affording us our usual sustenance. In every deed, pestilence and famine and wars have to be regarded as a remedy for nations as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

-- Tertullian, a Carthaginian priest in 210 AD, when the world population was approximately 250 million people

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

-- P. J. O'Rourke