If goods don t cross borders, armies will.

I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

Melanie Chisholm

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

Alison Larkin

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Anna Godbersen

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Jim Ryun

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

In short, luck's always to blame.

Jean de La Fontaine

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

Paulo Coelho

Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting; as an occupation, it is too wearing; as a public exhibition, there is no money in it. It is unsuited to the drawing room, and in the most cultured society it has long been banished from the social board. It has at last, in our day of progress and improvement, been degraded to brotherhood with flatulence. Among the best bred, these two arts are now indulged only in private--- though by consent of the whole company, when only males are present, it is still permissible, in good society, to remove the embargo on the fundamental sigh.

Mark Twain, Some Thoughts on the

Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.

Source Unknown

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

Matthew Arnold

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Bell Hooks