“Mediocre minds usually condemn what is beyond their grasp.”— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
“Mere sensibility is not true taste, but a morbid irritation of the nerves, and depends merely on bodily health.”— Elizabeth Carter
“People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.”— Art Buchwald
“A man on Death Row is a man who has been judged not only by his peers but by his God.”— Caryl Chessman
“Methinks I hear the last dread trumpet sound, To wake the nations sleeping under ground.”— John Pomfret
“Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.”— Johann Georg Zimmermann
“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one.”— Henry Ward Beecher
“I know what they were thinking, but why should it matter as long as I can sing? It's not a beauty contest.”— Susan Boyle