Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

Paulo Coelho

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

David Summers

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Tom Stoppard

Another drag, and he thought that it was like having your mind shaken out like a duvet, so that it resettled without creases, so that everything became smooth and simple and easy and good.

J.K. Rowling

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

Fanny Brice

Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.

Madonna