The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

Bertrand Russell

'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

William Shakespeare

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

Picabo Street

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.

Bob Hope

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

William Hogarth

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14

Bible

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem

Thomas Carlyle

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Ed Miliband

We are not the sum of our possessions.

George H. W. Bush

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

Graham Parke