Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

No man is hurt but by himself.

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy it requires no experience but needs some practice to be a good one.

Youre not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. Youre going to advance in life by what youre going to learn after you leave here.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!

Women are so many things. We're sisters, mothers, wives. There are so many things we encompass.

What you focus on expands. Focus on what you are best at and you will be unstoppable.

There's no doubt about Prakash's abilities as a director.

There are limits to monetary policy.

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

I dont think a female running a house is a problem a broken family. Its perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

Good conversation is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.