Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Colin Quinn

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Barbara Tuchman

The wise men understood that this natural world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. That's what I mean by action.

Paulo Coelho

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Mae West

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Stendhal

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Jules Verne

A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

C.S. Lewis

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Naguib Mahfouz

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Morgan Freeman