Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

I'm exhausted. I spent all morning putting in a comma and all afternoon taking it out

Oscar Wilde

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

Source Unknown

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.

Chris Hedges

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

D.H. Lawrence

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

David Duchovny

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it....

Aristotle

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

David Cameron

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler