I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.

War is the trade of Kings.

John Dryden

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right; immediately.

Sam Slick

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Annie Lennox

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my browNo flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!

Thomas F. Healey

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

Samuel Johnson

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Neil Simon

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Wie viele einsame Kinder war sein Problem nicht die Einsamkeit an sich, sondern dass er nie allein gelassen wurde, um sie zu geniessen.

Michael Chabon

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Vita SackvilleWest

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

Bob Dylan

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Samuel Butler