Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Fanny Burney

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

William Scranton

In lazy apathy let stoics boastTheir virtue fix

Alexander Pope, Essay on Man. Ep

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Oscar Wilde

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

St. Francis De Sales

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Frantz Fanon

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

Michael J. Fox

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Francis Bacon

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

Gillian Anderson