In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Will Rogers

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the seasons of snows and sins;The days dividing lover and lover,The light that loses, the night that wins;And time remembered is grief forgotten,And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,And in green underwood and coverBlossom by blossom the spring begins.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atal

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Henry David Thoreau

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Bob Geldof

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Margaret Mead

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

Scott Westerfeld

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats