People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Henry A. Kissinger

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

Phyllis Diller

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Cass Daley

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point

Virginia Woolf

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

David Mamet

It's not how much you make, it's how much you keep.

Anonymous

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Tom Hanks

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

William Shakespeare

We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a benighted or shadowy period when life and the people who constituted it had scarcely anything in common with ourselves. In reality the men of the Middle Ages were moved by the same emotions and impulses as our own, and their lives presented the same incongruous mixture of nobility and baseness.

Robert Huntington Fletcher, A Hi

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

Louis Finkelstein