When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Empty as your head.

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining ore, and called it gold; Before whose image bow the vulgar great, The vainly rich, the miserable proud, The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, And with blind feelings reverence the power That grinds them to the dust of misery. But in the temple of their hireling hearts Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn All earthly things but virtue.

Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.