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“History is a game played backwards only.”
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“It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.”
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“May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.”
Source : "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.
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“I'm a proper mummy's boy.”
Source : "Pop's future" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.
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“Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.”
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“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”
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“I wish I knew what I know now before.”
Source : Song: Baby Jane, Album: Body Wishes
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“It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through”
Source : Paul Torday, Susan Howe (2008). “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt