I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

Tim Robbins

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

Robert Browning

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Peter Lewis Allen

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

Johnny Vegas

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Billy Graham

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Thomas Traherne

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Sydney Smith

The good thing about being old is not being young.

Stephen Richards