Poetry is life distilled.

All for one and one for one, our government has strayed.

James Dye

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

Jamie Oliver

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

George Orwell

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

Steven Wright

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

Joseph Schumpeter

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

Terry Pratchett

A Man who has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feeling.

William Nsubuga

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

The first rule of achieving goodness is this: think only about self-perfection.

Leo Tolstoy