Sir Thomas Beecham

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Ronald Reagan

Politics I suppose to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Highlander (1986)

There can be only one.

Douglas Adams

Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much --the wheel, New York, wars and so on-- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

"Hlade's Law"

If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy man. He will find an easier way to do it.

Romans 8:38-39 (NIV)

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Don Marquis

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

J.D. Pohlman

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Derek Zoolander

I'm not an ambiturner ... I can't turn left.

Colin Powell

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.

Herbert Hoover

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Unknown

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Captain Oveur - Airplane! (1980)

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

Toni Phillips

Destiny leads us to the choices we make in life, from there fate is in our own hands.

Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Spalding Gray

Psychotherapy is the transformation of hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

"Segal's Law"

A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki from WB's Supernatural)

Just an interesting observation ... in an observationally interesting kind of way.

"The Cardinal Conundrum"

An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.

David Lloyd George

The most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in two steps.

G.K. Chesterton

The real great man is the one who makes every man feel great.

Ivy Baker Priest

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptations but the surest is cowardice.