To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Oscar Wilde

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.

English Proverb

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

Bertrand Russell

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Tom Baker

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

Leonard Cohen

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Brandon Boyd

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Jules Renard

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

Jim Jeffords

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Friedrich Nietzsche