As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24

Bible

The better you look, the more you see.

Bret Easton Ellis

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

Clive Anderson

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nnamdi Azikiwe

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Will Rogers

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

Gina Gershon

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

William Robertson Smith

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

Charlotte Bingham