It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.

And I'll wash your other clothes. Shall I also order you a new set of leathers?""Don't-" Wrath shut his mouth. "Sure. That'd be great. And, ah, could you get me some boxers? Black? XXL?

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.