“While the galleries were all applausive of heart, and the Fourth Estate looked with eyes enlightened, as if you had touched its lips with a staff dipped in honey,—I have sat with reflections too ghastly to be uttered.”

“The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

“Honey, I love to go to parties,
And I like to have a good time,
But if it gets too pale after a while
Honey and I start looking to find
One good man.”

Janis Joplin (1943–1970) American singer and songwriter

“The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“I opened my eyes
While you were kissing me once more than once,
And you looked as sincere as a dog.
Just as sincere as a dog does,
When it's the food on your lips with which it's in love.”

Fiona Apple (1977) singer-songwriter, musician

“You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here… Death ends life, not a relationship.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

“I gave you my arms, my lips, my heart,
My love, my life, my all,
But the best that I had to offer you
I found was all too small.”

Eddie DeLange (1904–1949) American bandleader and lyricist

“You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

“Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon... dipped in honey.”

Patrice O'Neal (1969–2011) American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor

“And lo! the universal air
Seemed lit with ghastly flame;
Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes
Were looking down in blame.”

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer