Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

Jerry Saltz

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

Faith is about submission and trust, not about will and determination.

David Megill

In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.

Proverb

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

Monty Python

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Ray Harryhausen

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Anthony Trollope

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

Ariel Sharon

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn.

John Berger