I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Henri Becquerel

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

George Best

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

Emily Procter

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again

Anais Nin

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Benjamin Disraeli

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

Anne Boyd

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Fritz Sauckel

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Maggie Stiefvater

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Madeleine L'Engle