Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

Susan B. Anthony

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois Fenelon

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Claude M. Bristol

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo DaVinci

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

Mickey Rooney

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

Whitley Strieber

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Will Rogers

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

William Hague

Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas Shadwell

That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute

Mahatma Gandhi