It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

Francis Bacon

O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo

William Shakespeare

Just existing is where a lot of living happens.

Fred Gallagher

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Douglas Horton

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Bill Gates

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Bertrand Russell

Libraries are our friends.

Neil Gaiman

My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

Carl Jung

I went to see my doctor. Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror . . . I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me? He said, I don't know but your eyesight is perfect.

Rodney Dangerfield

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

Charles Dickens