We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

Graeme Le Saux

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Christopher Hitchens

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

Jacques Pepin

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is the law, the last prerogative.

John Dryden, The Hind and the Pa

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

William Lyon Phelps

I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination, He died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.

Louis Farrakhan

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Harriet Woods

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Seamus Heaney

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Raoul Vaneigem

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher