When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide

William Shakespeare

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Proverb

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Charles Macklin

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that' It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so.

Christopher Hitchens

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Proverb

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

Samuel Johnson

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

George Herbert

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

George Bernard Shaw

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Leo Buscaglia

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Richard Branson

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

James Thurber