The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Alec Cairncross

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

Ogden Nash

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Paul Robeson

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Leo Tolstoy

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Gary Oldman

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

P. J. O'Rourke

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they hada kaleidoscope. We're surrounded.

Steven Wright

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Sigmund Freud

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

Charles Dibdin

Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.

Lao Tzu

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

Steve Backley

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley