Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

English Proverb

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

Jamie Muir

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Cassandra Clare

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

Ralph Venning

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Frederick Smith

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Frances Wright

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilisation, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilisation there is always an element of unrest. For sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilised order survives on its merits, and is transformed by its power of Recognizing its imperfections.

Alfred North Whitehead, Adventur

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Sir Winston Churchill

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer