“Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”

Immanuel Kant

“in reading the history of the two first Kings of the house of Tudor, we imagine ourselves reading the relation given by Tacitus, of Tiberius and the Roman Senate.”

Jean Louis De Lolme The Constitution of England [if, that is, we have any idea what the former did or the latter said]

“Reality is tricky”

Thomas Sowell

“Never confuse movement with action.”

Ernest Hemingway

“All life is six to five, against.”

Damon Runyon (the character who delivers the line is “Sam the Gonoph” in “A Nice Price” in The Best of Damon Runyon)

“Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.” - Fr. Andrew Greeley (quoted by William F. Buckley Jr. in National Review Sept. 15 1997

“Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.” Emo Phillips

“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.”

Peter Medawar