Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
Henri-Frederic AmielWhoever would lie usefully should lie seldom. (Memoirs of the reign of George II)
Lord HerveyMarriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy ConnellyI'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard SternBe modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules RenardEnquire not what boils in another's pot.
Thomas FullerFlow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang TzuPrudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas HobbesWe have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D H LawrenceA women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
John GrayIt is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
John LockeThat is totally unacceptable to us and we have no option but to lodge a formal complaint [on the actions of football agent Peter Harrison]
Keith LambThe last thing one knows when constructing a work is what to put first.
Blaise PascalFollow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. - Of Human Bondage
W Somerset MaughamAs nations improve, so do their gods
Georg LichtenbergThere's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
Alan DaviesThe chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east
James MichenerEvery man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Pope John XXIIIYou know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type
Phyllis DillerEvery man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
Joseph PriestleyI am happy to be here and can't wait to show what I can do to. Hopefully, I can be a great asset for the team [being at Barcelona]
Thierry HenrySpace is the breath of art.
Frank Lloyd WrightIf you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard BachBryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network.
Craig KilbornI'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!
Woody AllenWe realised that the Japanese who came to Wimbledon were very interested in the history of the British championships but were not getting the full benefit of the place.
Ashley JonesProperty is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
Marcel DuchampI don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are music and football, and I have never really been good at either.
Irvine WelshIt was mind blowing (all the way from memphis) the bruised poetry of ian hunters voice, the songs swaggering wilfillness and killer hook line. It thrilled me then and it thrills me now.
John RobbI don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either
Jack BennyI have a normal life. I go away for a weekend. I do a shoot. I come back, which is the best part of my life, like, the normal everydayness.
Lauren BushPerhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
James BaldwinNo one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma GoldmanThey call me Cozza!
Martin CorryThe greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett MardenThe worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.
John GrishamI don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now
Frank DobsonI thought I'd be stuck there for hours. Luckily she was marrying a doctor.
Comedy DaveThe comedians greatest fear is not that the crowd is not enjoying things, but that even when we change the material the crowd is not interested. Though when that happens perhaps it tells you something!
Steve HarveyI need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Anthem
Ayn RandSadly it looks like Scotland and Italy at the bottom again.[on the 2005 Six Nations]
Andy NicolThere were issues to do with Stobhill Hospital, local health services and the campaign to save Bishopbriggs post office.
Jo SwinsonBy means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth
Yukio MishimaThe price of a kiss may be your life. Don't hesitate to pay it.
John A MarshallYou're not a star until they can spell your name in karachi
Humphrey BogartRevolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
Pierre BoulezA journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
Jesse GarrettI had to double the dose of my anti-inflammatories the last few days because my shoulder was painful, and it's probably I just had a very bad reaction to that
Justine Henin-HardenneIt is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill
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