Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

All knots that lovers tieAre tied to sever.Here shall your sweetheart lie,Untrue for ever.

A.E. Housman

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Thomas Gray

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Wallis Simpson

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.Often attributed to Mark Twain; Quoted in Mark Twain, Autobiography, ch. 29, (1924), his exact words were:

Benjamin Disraeli

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Michael D. Higgins

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

John Foster Dulles

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Aldous Huxley

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Jamie Bell

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Benny Hinn

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Christopher Lasch