“Expect poison from the standing water.”

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

Exuberance is beauty.

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Energy is eternal delight.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It’s a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

Words are so powerful treat them as weapons. You say you love someone expect a war.

I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn’t expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

I’ve always been a worker. I’ve never expected be given anything.

A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can’t expect them to keep it real with you. In this industry people just want to be famous and they forget how to keep it real and they forget to give credit to the people who helped them get to where they at.