A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Money has to be an explosion of excitement and opportunity, yet we already secretly know that it doesn't do what it promises. Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12, or our first wage at the end of that first exhausting week, paid in folded cash.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The pleasure in lovers' gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

A. J. Liebling
A. J. Liebling

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.