There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Bible

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Hal Boyle, Help, Help! Another D

Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Epicurus, letter

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

Franz Boas

It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.

Woody Allen

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Aristotle

I came to you a crossbearer on a stretcher and an outcast from humanity, and I went from you a conqueror of life.

Halldór Laxness

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

Gabriel Mann

Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.

Jonathan Swift

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may.

Thomas Jefferson

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

Keith Emerson

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success, of any kind, as perseverance. It overcomes almost everything.

John D. Rockefeller