Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

William Cowper

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

Robert Fulghum

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Godfrey Reggio

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Oscar Wilde

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Ambrose Bierce

I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.

Francois Hollande

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Carla Bruni

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robyn Hitchcock

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Wor

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Albert Einstein

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment

Samuel Johnson