There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Lenny Bruce

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Rachel Carson

How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Katharine Hepburn

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

Mark Burnett

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Hunter S. Thompson

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Melody Beattie

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

Jonathan Coe

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

G. K. Chesterton