I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.

Proverb

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Henry Adams

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

William Cartwright

Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

Angela Carter

Sex is excitement, seeks satisfaction and soon loses interest - selfishness. Making love is passionate, fulfilling and does not look for an end - selflessness.

Barry Long

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

Larry David

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.

Nicolas Malebranche

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Lionel Blue

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes