A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Denis Leary

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Eminem

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a

Thomas Carlyle

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

Georgette Heyer

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Taylor Swift

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead androtten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest barrier to wealth creation is the denial of Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

C.S. Lewis

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Louis Nizer

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Sir Winston Churchill

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is violently, grossly, and cruelly used, it produces a good effect by creating, or at any rate bringing out, the spirit of revolt and individualism that is to kill it. When it is used with a certain amount of kindness, and accompanied by prizes and rewards, it is dreadfully demoralising. People, in that case, are less conscious of the horrible pressure that is being put on them, and so go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that they are probably thinking other people's thoughts, living by other people's standards, wearing practically what one may call other people's second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single moment.

Oscar Wilde