Berlage Lyceum Quotes

#1. Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

Jeanette Winterson

#2. It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

Fatos Nano

#5. Have interesting failures ... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve ... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.

Garrison Keillor

#6. It's very difficult to juggle two careers, unless you're going to have someone put it all together for you. Because you're on TV, somebody just gives you a record deal - that's not how I'd want to get it, because it's just not real.

Ed Westwick

#7. Turning people into toads is usually redundant.

Mary Beth Robb

#8. More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

William Shakespeare

#9. When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Rockefeller

#10. Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

Seneca The Younger

#11. I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone

Antonio Porchia

#12. A country either elevates the ignorant to the level of the learned or it itself sinks down to the level of the ignorant.

Mehmet Murat Ildan