The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Red sky at night, the city's alight.

Terry Pratchett

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Sir Thomas Browne

Truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Ralph Nader

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Clint Eastwood

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Pope Francis I

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low.

Sylvia Browne

Popularity It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

John Milton

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

Ian Botham

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

William Jerome

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney