"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."
- Elizabeth Gaskell
"If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married."
- Elizabeth I
"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
- Greta Garbo
"Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
- Johannes Kepler
"Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking."
- Criss Jami
"The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste."
- Matshona Dhliwayo
"For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mou..."
- Charles Darwin
"All tastes are expressions of belief."
- Zadie Smith
"Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss."
- Toba Beta