Thomas Love Peacock

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.