"Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the..." - Quote by Dave Barry

“Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.”

“If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.”

“I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with dogs. I discussed some of the reasons that a person might want to live out of the control of our federal, state, local, and every other form of government. Actually, I don't think I even called myself a libertarian. I think Tom Shroder identified me as one.”

“A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.”

“I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.”

“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

“What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?”

“But thy eternal summer shall not fade.”

“Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.”