Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Mark Twain

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Audrey Hepburn

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Yolen

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Marilyn Monroe

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Audrey Hepburn

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Mark Twain

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

All children are born with a scientific mind: everything is interesting and worth investigating.

Stevenvh

If football is so spectacular why does it take cheerleaders to excite the crowd?

On a young girl's T-shirt

We live in the era of smart phones and stupid people.

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Missions are stupid. I have no mission. No-one has. And it’s a terrific release to realise you’re free, free of all missions.

Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

Sir Bedevere: …“and that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped.”
King Arthur: “This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.”

Film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

“I never could stomach these nationalists,” he exclaimed. “The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”.

Terence H. White, “The once and future king”

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

Thomas Paine, “Age of Reason”

Success is 1% inspiration, 98% perspiration and 2% attention to detail.

Phil Dunphy

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Confucius

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Confucius

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama XIV, “The Art of Happiness”

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

Dalai Lama XIV