Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Bertrand Russell

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all BEGIN freely--a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show MORE affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.

Jane Austen

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Andre Breton

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Wogan

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Moraji R. Desai

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Chris Rock

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Edmond de Goncourt

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Matthew Arnold

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

Kahlil Gibran

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Lionel Trilling

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

Mark Udall

The language of excitement is at best picturesque; merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau