The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Life would be dull without them.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.