I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Yogi Berra

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

Margaret Atwood

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

Kirk Douglas

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

George Eliot

When we divert our love and emotions towards God, everything else follows.

Mohammed Al-Fateh

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Michelangelo

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

W. H. Auden

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Robertson Davies