Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.

Cat Agonis

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Douglas William Jerrold

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Benjamin Franklin

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Dag Hammarskjold

Beware of the person that is so empowered they ask questions that only actions can answer.

Steve Maraboli

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Thomas Carlyle

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

Billy Corgan

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Sam Kean

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.

Art Buchwald