Michel de Montaigne
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

Arthur Schopenhauer
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

H. L. Mencken
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office."

Rabbi Julius Gordon
"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."

Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

David Frost
"He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed."

Jerry Seinfeld
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."