A crafty knave needs no broker.

God can mend a broken heart but he must have all the pieces.

And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing, Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch, In early spring.

Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Well, I'll be John Brown! (southern cliche).

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

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A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

The seal went into the restaurant and was asked by the waiter if he would like a Canadian Club on the rocks. He replied no thank you.

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.