Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith, The Way To Succeed

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

E. O. Wilson

The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.

Gustav Holst

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

Fritz Sauckel

Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Harry S Truman

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Jackson Browne

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Francis Bacon

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

Frank Black

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Oscar Wilde

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

John Ruskin

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Bono