Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and . . . adore thee.

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Daniel J. Boorstin

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.

Kentetsu Takamori

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

J.K. Rowling

If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving.Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.Take what is given:Give what cannot be taken.

Idries Shah

I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.

Margaret Thatcher

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

Agatha Christie

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adler

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

John Dewey

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

Marina Warner

To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

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