Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

Philip José Farmer

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

Mary Balogh

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Mitt Romney

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Henry Brooks Adams

The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He.

Thomas Raineborough

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Jean de la Bruyere

In my end is my beginning.

Mary Stuart

His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim.

John Dryden

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

Lucy Powell

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Ken Olsen

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

J. G. Ballard

When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it. No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, Nothing doing, and refuse to inspect it.

Ogden Nash