Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a mans.

C.S. Lewis

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Harriet Tubman

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

George Bernard Shaw

You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

Orson Scott Card

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Bob Dylan

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum, The Storyteller'

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Thomas Hood

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Ernest Becker

If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string

Benny Bellamacina