"What! Another of those damned fat, square, thick books! Always scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon."
— The Duke of Gloucester to Edward Gibbon

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
— Mark Twain

"You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians."
— Graham Chapman

"The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences."
— Leo Tolstoy (The Law of Love and the Law of Violence)

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
— Terry Pratchett (Sourcery)

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
— Heraclitus

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

"It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae"
— Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove)

"An army marches on its stomach."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
— T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others)

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
— William Morris