If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Thomas Jefferson

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

Norman Wisdom

My words are the kisses but many of the times they don't taste so good as the touch of your lips does to mine.

Santosh Kalwar

When the world has changed and the rivers run dry ad the forests grow brown will we realize that we don't run the world. We must understand that Nature is what helped us into this beautiful planet, so we must help her in return.

Veronica White

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Robert Townsend

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Fred Astaire

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Alan Valentine

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Robert Brustein

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Dave Brubeck

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

J.K. Rowling

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

George Bernard Shaw

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Frank A. Clark