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- Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act I, sc.2
- Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
- There but for the grace of God go [I].
- John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
- You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, November 5, 2003
- The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14
- I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.
- Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
- After thirty nine years this is all I've done.
- Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
- When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001), "Any Road", Brainwashed, 2002
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", UK Channel 4, 2006
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