If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Oscar Wilde

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Bertrand Russell

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Simone Weil

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Like sheep which, having been driven to a pasture, can now spread out at their leisure, the clouds began to drift. Afternoon sunlight sliced through into the still waters. The boomerang hung in the sky, and the boy thought he would have to find a new word for the way the colours glowed. In the meantime, he looked down at the water and tried out the word he'd been taught by his grandfather, who'd been taught it by grandfather, and which had been kept for thousands of years for when it would been needed. It meant . It had, he thought, been well worth waiting for.

Terry Pratchett

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Augustine of Hippo

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Billy Barty

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Neil Gaiman

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Doris Lessing