A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

Ovid

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Friedrich von Schiller

If you laid ever economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

Salvador Nasello

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

John Ruskin

The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually, it does.People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is .There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle .

Terry Pratchett

Speech is the mirror of action.

Solon

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

Kellan Lutz

Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Camille Paglia

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Greg Anderson

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Sarah Fielding

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only that life forces upon them choices that we do not have to make.

James Rachels

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.

Richard Branson