Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David Thoreau

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
Henry David Thoreau

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
W. Clement Stone

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
Mitch Hedberg

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
Bob Dylan

All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

I've been things and seen places.
Mae West

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller

I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Mae West

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
Coco Chanel

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu