"It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily."

“Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.”

Source : Theodore Martin (sir.), William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1866). “The book of ballads [by sir T. Martin and W.E. Aytoun] ed. by Bon Gaultier”, p.128

“Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not”

“I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.”

Source : "Risk Taking Is in His Genes" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.

“These are the days that must happen to you.”

“Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.”

“When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.”

“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.”

“Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.”