Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Nevell Bovee

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Edward F. Halifax

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Mortimer Caplan

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contendingif we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtainedwe must fight!I repeat it, sir, we must fight!! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us!

Patrick Henry

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Meryl Streep

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Oscar Wilde

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Philip Massinger

Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.

T.F. Hodge

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Victoria Beckham

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

George Orwell