Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!

To stop sinning suddenly.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.