We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to full what temptation means.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Rod Mckeun

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken

Benjamin Franklin

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

Thomas Carlyle

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.

Jensen Ackles

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

Chris Patten

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?

Rudyard Kipling

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

John Lennon

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

Vince Cable

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal