Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.
Raisa GorbachevParliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman TebbitI have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Lord ByronWomen aren't as mere as they used to be.
Walt KellyAntitrust decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month basis.
Harold GreeneAction is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent PealeThey take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
Ogden NashAmericans like fat books and thin women.
Russell BakerWe have a problem in this country with political correctness - bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom.
Mike NewellMan, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John SteinbeckThe death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert HutchinsThere is excessive micromanagement, with far too many decisions being taken in the Treasury by bright young things who have no feel for the practical problems on the ground.
Vince CableHe mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover ClevelandTemper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Francis QuarlesThe Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.
Frank DobsonDon't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
Leonardo DicaprioA small number of individuals are giving the idea there is a big rift in the Labour party [understatement of the year]
Ann ClwydSuccess has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael KordaI hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
E Lynn LintonSteve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.
Jeff ThomsonIt is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights
Claudia CardinaleAs a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David ThoreauPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaTomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin FranklinThe greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesYou should pray to have a sound mind in a sound body.
( Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano )
JuvenalAdversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters
Victor HugoThe ocean moans over dead men's bones.
Thomas Bailey AldrichThe right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThat's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De CervantesMen are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
Henry L MenckenI have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan BehanOur gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine. [Financial Times]
Roger ScrutonOk, did they say I am the worst dressed? All I have to say is that I've seen those magazines before, and I've seen some of the things they've picked for best dressed, and it's the most boring, un-experimental thing out there. It's very conservative, and that's not what I am.
Christina AguileraWith my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
Nicholas CageI don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn
MobyVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceWith words we govern men.
Benjamin DisraeliThese are the same old fogies who doffed their lids and tugged the forelock to the British establishment [of Aussie Tory supporters of Britain]
Paul KeatingStyle is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Andre MauroisI've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement]
Mika HakkinenSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. (Ends and Means)
Aldous HuxleyWe are clear that the interpretation I have set out in this statement is correct [on saying Charles marriage to Camilla was legal]
Lord FalconerFreedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell ClaytonInternational rugby can change very, very quickly and the momentum of the game can swing on decisions that are made.
Andy Robinson Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
Margot FonteynIf his theory is correct, he is in for real problems in the next life. He will probably be doomed to come back as Glenn Hoddle [on Hoddle's comments on reincarnation]
Tony BanksGreat leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin PowellSeek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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