I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde |
The truth which makes men free is for the most
part the truth men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar |
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G K Chesterton |
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless
one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K Jerome |
History is littered with wars which everyone knew
would never happen.
Enoch Powell |
(About Nature) In her inventions nothing
is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci |
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills
them.
Dion Boucicault |
Boredom is one of the sure ways to measure your
own inner emptiness.
Billy Graham |
Hope can only exist where there is uncertainty.
Absolute certainty means complete hopelessness.
Dorothy Rowe (See Pride in Depression) |
Edison's electric lamp is a completely idiotic
idea.
Sir William Preece (Post Office Chief Engineer) |
The
only place outside of heaven where you can be perfectly safe
from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.
C. S. Lewis |
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad
memory.
Unattributed |
