When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Charlie Chaplin

From labor health, from health contentment springs.

Melody Beattie

We like to be deceived.

Blaise Pascal

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

Henry David Thoreau

Two halves have little choice but to join;And yes, they do make a wholebut two wholes when they coincide...That is beauty.That is love.

Peter McWilliams, (quoted by mar

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

John Ruskin

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Lucille Ball

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

James Robinson

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Saul Steinberg

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

Chris Lowe