Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.

get a kick (out of something).

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

There are two types of people in this world: those who leave a mark, and others who just leave a stain.

Don't be so Heavenly minded that you do no earthly good.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many headed monster of the pit.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

In union there is strength.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.