Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Michel de Montaigne

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Theresa May

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Henry Fielding

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

James Barrie

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Aristotle

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Horace

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.

Trevor Treharne

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Steve Wozniak

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Terry Pratchett

Beware of the ides of March.

William Shakespeare