A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow Should prize the Topaz' amber hue-- Emblem of friends and lovers true.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us, And forget us till another year be gone!

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes.

The world is run by C students.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Until death all is life.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.]

These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.

But they that are above Have ends in everything.

That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.