There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
It is important that the masses realize that some aspects of science are blatantly crooked.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.
The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.
