In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were,first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.

In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it?Variant translation: I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Plutarch

He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous.

William Shakespeare

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster

Free yourself from the imprisonment of your own limiting beliefs and prejudices.

Steve Maraboli

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

Robert Asprin

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Shirley Knight

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Persius

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

Honor Blackman

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

Carla Bruni

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

Eva Herzigova

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

William Faulkner