A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Cowboy boots you can't wear unless you actually are a cowboy or in a Status Quo tribute band, or over 60; there's something about a retiring gent in cowboy boots that looks sort of presidential.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

In fact, everybody should wake up smelling nice. I go further, there is not an excuse, ever, not to smell nice, particularly your feet.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Waite
A. E. Waite

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

A. E. Waite
A. E. Waite

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.