I've been very fortunate.
Dolly Parton
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that but that's the way I am.
Princess Diana
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf, is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia Woolf
