The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark;I thank God for the NightThe healing dark.

Robert William Service, Weary, f

Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hitWith Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms,Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes,Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.O, she is rich in beauty; only poorThat, when she dies, with dies her store.Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

William Shakespeare

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, selfrestraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Jimmy Townsend

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

George Orwell

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Andy Rooney

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Joyce Carol Oates

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Steven Wright

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

J.K. Rowling

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Janos Kadar

It’s very hard to design something that you almost do not see because it just seems so obvious, natural and inevitable.

Jonathon Ive

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Ben Elton