The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

Lucy Powell

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.

Stephen Richards

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

Yogi Berra

If school success were a reliable index of human capacity, we should be able to go a step further and say that the intelligence test is a general measure of human capacity. But of course no such claim can be made for school success, for that would be to say that the purpose of the schools is to measure capacity. It is impossible to admit this. The childÂ’s success with school work cannot be a measure of a childÂ’s success in life. On the contrary, his success in life must be a significant measure of the schoolÂ’s success in developing the capacities of the child. If a child fails in school and then fails in life, the school cannot sit back and say: you see how accurately I predicted this. Unless we are to admit that education is essentially impotent, we have to throw back the childÂ’s failure at the school, and describe it as a failure not by the child but by the school.http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5172/

Walter Lippmann

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Herodotus

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Bertrand Russell

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Voltaire