Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Finally she faltered; Saw at last, forsooth, Every gaudy color Is a bit of truth. Then the gates were opened; Miracles were seen; That instructed damsel Donned a gown of green; Wore it in a churchyard, All arrayed with care; And a painted rainbow Shone above her there.

Nathalia Crane

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Michael Caine

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Herbert N. Casson

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

...although both the Academics and the Pyrrhonian Skeptics say that they believe some things, yet here too the difference between the two philosophies is quite plain. For the word believe has different meanings; it means not to resist but simply to follow without any strong impulse or inclination, as the boy is said to believe his tutor; but sometimes it means to assent to a thing of deliberate choice and with a kind of sympathy due to strong desire, as when the incontinent man believes him who approves of an extravagant mode of life. Since, therefore, Carneades and Cleitomachus declare that a strong inclination accompanies their credence

Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Py

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

Peter Singer

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

George Bernard Shaw

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

Vince Cable

Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?

Sakura Tsukuba

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

Ernest Rutherford

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

Bill Frist