It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song., Luther,
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor., Robertson Davies,
How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony., Leopold von SacherMasoch, Venus in Furs,
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects., J. W. Fulbright,