It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai E. Stevenson

In England and America, a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe, it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

Neil Gaiman

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Thomas Huxley

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Rockefeller

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

Norman Borlaug

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

Thomas Carlyle

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Walter Bagehot

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Source Unknown

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

Gerald F. Lieberman

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

George R.R. Martin