I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it.

Jonathan Miller

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

English Proverb

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Marcus Valerius Martial

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Wilma Rudolph

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Margaret Mead

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.

Donna Lynn Hope

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

Toba Beta

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

David Hume

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.Bartlett's 15th edition notes This is considered the most important definition of the relation of grace to free will in the Middle Ages.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Lib

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

Martin Firrell