Example is more powerful than precept.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

When you became the love, everyone around you becomes your lover.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.