It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.

Sterilise: what you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power, Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up To want the rest.

It is not a war on drugs; it's a war on people.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.

And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!

People do not plan to fail, they just fail to plan.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.