If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

I certainly think the free-market has failed.

Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

Trees are worth more alive than dead

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.