Dont tell your kids you had an easy birth or they wont respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.. – Joan Rivers
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible. – Talcott Parsons
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts. – A. N. Wilson
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it. – Richard Chenevix Trench, Proverbs and Their Lessons, 1905
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words gay marriage are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. – Dick Morris