What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

Henry Liddon

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Richard Armour

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

Johnny Vegas

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Hubert Humphrey

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

George Santayana

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Walter Lord

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Bill Watterson

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

William Shakespeare

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Leo Tolstoy

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce