Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Dudley Bradstreet

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Kiana Tom

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

George Osborne

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Ronald Reagan

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

William Robertson Smith

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

Linford Christie

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

Steven Wright