'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Mel Gibson

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion

Mark Twain

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

Karl Malone

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

Ken Hill

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

Toba Beta

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Eric Braeden

Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.

Anon.

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

Albert Einstein

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

Alexander Hamilton

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Meister Eckhart