A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Thomas Fuller

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

Hugh Jackman

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Vance Packard

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Rupert Brooke

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.

Charles Sumner

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Albert Schweitzer

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Voltaire

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

William Hague

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Mike Leigh