Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

Remote and ineffectual don.

Hilaire Belloc

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Brian Ferneyhough

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Arthur Miller

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Hosea Ballou

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

William Hague

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry

Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!

Aesop

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

Tracey Ullman

I have lived a short time without a future, completely lost - never alone, but very lost. We say in bad times that it's happening for a reason, perhaps - because it makes us feel better - to give times of strife a higher purpose, even if we find it hard to believe.

David Millar