Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means

The end of love looks like the beginning of war

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

I want to do it too!” said Gazzy, sitting very, very quietly, completely motionless.“Nope, ” said Nudge, shaking her head. “You stand out like a fart in church.

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

Merlin’s beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.

I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)