Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes. They will say, Women don't have what it takes. - Clare Boothe Luce
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books. - P.J. O'Rourke
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Walt Emerson
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - Virginia Woolf
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet. - William Butler Yeats
Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
Love isn't love until you give it away. - Oscar Hammerstein
Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad. - Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 31:27
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. - Frank Sinatra
Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. - Finley Peter Dunne
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. - Rupert Brooke
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Winston Churchill
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. - Nicholas Boileau