Favourite quotes 1

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - Oscar Wilde

"It's not you, it's me...I don't like you" - Dom Thurbon

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. - Woody Allen

What chance has the innocent uncultivated liar against the educated expert? What chance have I against a lawyer? - Mark Twain

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Parliament. But I repeat myself.

"I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone." Hector in 'History Boys' by Alan Bennett

"If such there be, yet grant me this at least:
Man differs more from man, than man from beast."
- Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind", 1674

"law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France

"Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance" - J S Mill

"God is good, God is just, God is righteous, God is holy. Has God no title to our odedience but such as the devil would have, if there were a devil and the universe were without a God." - JS Mill, Later Letters, Works, XV, p631

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. - Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen

In general, black people can run faster, jump higher and are more agile. What do white people get? "Due process" - Jonathan Libchik

"Riverdance proves two things. You can't keep the Irish down, and potatoes are good for your legs." - Anon.

"Being a train station toilet attendant must be the worst job in the world. I would rather count trees in Siberia, in speedos, at least death would come quicker." - Nicholas Cocco

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. In letting our own light shine, we give people permission to shine. Who are you, not to be brilliant, fabulous and talented? You are a child of God, and playing small does not serve the world. As we are liberated from our fears, our presence auto-matically liberates others. And so I choose today to live big. My successes and mistakes teach me that the lessons are here to take us beyond our self-imposed limits, so that we may be the best persons we can imagine" -Nelson Mandela

"Eat until you are full, and then stop"

“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.” - Napoleon Hill

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge'' - Napoleon Hill

“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.” - Napoleon Hill

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing” - Napoleon Hill

“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” - Napoleon Hill

For Generosity

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous;
teach me to serve you as you deserve -
to give, and not to count the cost,
to fight, and not to heed the wounds,
to toil, and not to seek for rest,
to labour, and not to ask for any reward,
except that of knowing that I do your holy will.

This prayer was written by St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus. Whatever your opinion of the current day church might be, this remains a nice prayer.

Poor you

Poor you, I'm sorry you're not me,
for you will never know what loving you can be.
Poor you, you'll never know your charms,
You'll never feel your warmth, you're never in your arms.