I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

Jacqueline KennedyOnassis, in Th

In Germany I am not so famous.

Hans Berger

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

Aldous Huxley

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Michael Gove

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Francis Bacon

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Victor Hugo

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Thomas Fuller

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Jean Rostand

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche