A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
- Mark Twain


It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
- Margaret Bonnano


Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
- Feodor Dostoevsky


A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
- Rita Mae Brown


Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
- Henry Ford


The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot


If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- Mark Twain