If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent   (Anna Quindlen)

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.   (H. L. Mencken)

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.   (Thomas H. Huxley)

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.   (Robert Sternberg)

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.   (Oscar Wilde)

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will i   (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"   (William Shakespeare)

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.   (Dan Quayle)

Necessity has no law.   (William Langland)

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.   (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)