A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

Tom Felton

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

Little Richard

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Nancy Astor

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal

John Green

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Maya Lin

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

Brad Holland

Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.

J. G. Gallimore