The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

Jay London

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Neville Kenneth Wran

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Albert Camus

It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

John Dryden

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

Bernard Ingham

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Gilbert Seldes

Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

Dorothy Deming

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

Dominic Monaghan

Tell me your story and I will get back your life.

Stephen Richards

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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