I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?'

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Alice Walker

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Dale Carnegie

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

J.K. Rowling

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Marcus V. Pollio

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

George Bernard Shaw

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

Sherri Shepherd

The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

Source Unknown

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

William Hazlitt, Sketches and Es

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith