Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; his presence should be felt everywhere, but he should never be seen.
-Gustave Flaubert
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand