Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes, He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.

. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

The only limitations to God are in our mind.

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

No call has ever poisoned by pen.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.