Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Meister Eckhart

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

Hannes Alfven

When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.

Jenny Han

Bear one another's burdens.

Bible

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

Anita Diamant

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Saint Augustine of Hippo

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

William Hazlitt

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Lois L. Kaufman

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

Ismail Haniyeh

The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

William Hazlitt