The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

My future is righteousness.

Bob Marley

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

Anderson Cooper

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

Terry Pratchett

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

Charlie Brown

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

George Osborne

Ever since Comte first set the agenda of social science, his megalomania lingers on in sociology, political science, and other disciplines.

Thomas Flanagan

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Thomas Jefferson