Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

Gerard Way

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

Steven Wright

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

George Wald

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

John Lancaster Spalding

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

Peter Jennings

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Jean de La Fontaine

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certaintiesTime unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

Peter Porter