Edward Gibbon

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.