I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

Kelly Easton

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Henry Fielding

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

Bertrand Russell

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Francis H. Bradley

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

Benjamin Franklin

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

Thierry Henry

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Meir Kahane

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Dave Brubeck

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

Julie Burchill

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Peter Davison

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Paul Rudd