A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. Hermione Gingold, from a press report, 1973

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my...

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices...

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein, Sc

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people. Ben Harper

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Spencer Churchill