Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it....

Aristotle

Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

F. Lee Bailey

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Edward Koch

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

John P. Zenger

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato The Elder

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Samuel Johnson

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Jerry Gillies

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

John Cleese

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

Raoul Vaneigem

I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a pessimist is thinking, and if you don

Christopher Orlet, from The Opti

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg