We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Fran Lebowitz

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did not mean to say there were not pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, without there being a tolerable face among them. ... But still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of!

Jane Austen

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

David Grayson

O, she walked unaware of her own increasing beauty That was holding men's thoughts from market or plough

Patrick MacDonogh

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Cher

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

A. J. P. Taylor

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

Woody Allen

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

Nigel Farage

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead