Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.

Plutarch

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

John Selden

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Bill Condon

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

Emma Watson

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Gita Bellin

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Dane Cook

Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin.

Bertrand Russell

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

M. Night Shyamalan

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Richard Paul Evans