Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

Andy Stern

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Sir John Mortimer

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Christopher Hitchens

The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures.

Earl Warren

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

George D. Prentice

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

Jarvis Cocker

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing.

Paul R. Scheele

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

Dhani Harrison