Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

More than any other president of this century, Ford was chosen for his integrity and trustworthiness: his peers in Congress put him in the White House because he told the truth and kept his word.

Gerald Ford

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Steven Wright

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Stiles

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Anacreon

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Anthony Robbins

Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

Freeman Dyson

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

John Philip Sousa

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Aristotle

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Xun Zi