Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Henry David Thoreau

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Vidal Sassoon

Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle

Mahatma Gandhi

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Henry Ford

So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

Virginia Woolf

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

Megan Fox

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

P. J. O'Rourke

Inequility is the price of civilization.

George Orwell

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain