And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire

William Shakespeare

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

Sir John Mortimer

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

Bob Schieffer

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Vance Packard

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Henry Ward Beecher

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Magdalena Neuner

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.

G. W. F. Hegel

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Terry Pratchett

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Source Unknown

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud