When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas B. Macaulay

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Nancy Astor

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Wole Soyinka

You can't trust the internet.

Nicolette Sheridan

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

David Sedaris

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Hans Christian Andersen

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Algernon H. Blackwood

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Nick Clegg

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Charles Lamb

Uma virtude deve ser nossa invenção, nossa defesa e nossa necessidade pessoais: tomada em qualquer outro sentido, não passa de um perigo. Aquilo que não é uma condição vital é prejudicial ? vida: uma virtude que não existe senão por causa dum sentimento de respeito pela ideia de «virtude», como Kant a queria, é perigosa. A «virtude», o «dever», o «bem em si», o bem como carácter da impersonalidade do valor geral - quimeras onde se exprime a degenerescência, o último enfraquecimento da vida, a chinesice de Conisberga.

Friedrich Nietzsche