Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry

It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.

American Indian Proverb, Shenand

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Matthew Prior

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

Barack Obama

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Lucy Powell

Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it.

Proverb

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Phil McGraw

If your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.

Anon., attributed to Bill Earle,

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Bertrand Russell

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson