If you do not want to part with what you have do not lie and claim that you have nothing but decline politely saying that circumstances or your own desires prevent you.
Sai BabaThere are plenty of problems in the world and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
P. J. O'RourkeFor a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well semi-normal.
Johnny DeppObstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur SchopenhauerOf prosperity mortals can never have enough.
AeschylusI believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
George W. BushMountains will go into labour and a silly little mouse will be born.
HoraceIt is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas HuxleyYet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion labor that is profound repose vision in obscurity and beyond all desire a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas MertonDon't expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die.
Kurt Cobain