Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

Alfred North Whitehead, Adventur

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Ben Barnes

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Anna Held

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

Arianna Huffington

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

Josh Radnor

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

George Chapman

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Miguel de Cervantes

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Mark Twain