My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

James Thurber

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.

Neville Chamberlain

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

George Bernard Shaw

Death is woven in with the violets, said Louis. Death and again death.)

Virginia Woolf

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

Aristotle

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Benjamin Franklin

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

John Henry Newman

You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.

John Searle

Love is like a blanket: it will keep you warm, but it might also suffocate you. Also, it's probably covered with cat hair--love, I mean.

Jarod Kintz

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Toni Morrison

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Neville Marriner