When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink

Terry Pratchett

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

Tony Dungy

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde

I fly from pleasure, said the prince, because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.

Samuel Johnson

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

William Shatner

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Ron Chernow

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Will Rogers

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Marta Kristen

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

P. G. Wodehouse

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

George Eliot

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.

Munia Khan