Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right

Henry Louis Mencken

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom

Friedrich August Hayek

The vote demonstrates that we accept the notion that all human beings are created in the image of God and have an equal right to preach and teach the word of God.

Alexander M. Shapiro

I am sure that every one of my colleagues – Democrat, Republican, and Independent – agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
Barbara Boxer

I think it’s very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you’re back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you’d join us as well.
Tim Scott

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.

Ted Morgan

Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas. (Michael Klaper)

I am a vegetarian for health reasons – the health of the chicken. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

Nobody can come up with a good argument for eating animals ”nobody can. People as some kind of a joke say, well, ‘It’s tasty’, but it’s only tasty once you garnish it and you put salt and pepper, and you cook it, and you have to do 300 things to it to disguise its true taste. If you put garnishes on a chair or fabric, it would probably taste quite nice. (Morrissey)

I’m a postmodern vegetarian – I eat meat ironically. (Bill Bailey )

The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love! (Margaret Atwood)

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
(Alicia Barnhart)

At the touch of love and heart, everyone becomes a poet (Plato)

Where there is love, there is life (Mahatma Gandhi)

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired (Robert Frost)

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love (Albert Einstein)

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. (Aristotle)

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. (Rupert Brooke)

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
(William Shakespeare)

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. (James Joyce)

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. (Oscar Wilde)

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. (John Lennon)

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. (La Rochefoucauld)

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. (Alexander Smith)

True love stories never have endings. (Richard Bach)

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. (Erich Segal)

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. (Claudia Ghandi)

Time is
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is eternity.
(Henry van Dyke, read at funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales)

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one. (Friedrich Halm)

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. (John Lennon)

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.”