But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

Terry Pratchett

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fuller

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Bob Woodward

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Sienna Miller

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.

Julian Barnes

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Gordon Parks

I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

Curt Schilling

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

Bob Beamon

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Samuel Johnson

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

William Gurnall