When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Carrie P. Snow

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

Theresa May

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Voltaire

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Jane Austen

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

Oscar Wilde

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Source Unknown

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

I don't like the idea of famous people.

Kristin Hersh

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

Dan Savage