Most accidents happen at home - maybe we should move.

I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. - Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun ,

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Comparisons are odorous. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Everything starts with the customer.

Charm is more than beauty.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Friends forever; never apart, maybe by distance, but not by heart.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness married to thy stronger state Makes with me thy strength to communicate. If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss; Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.

Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a decent poem, I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example, Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample; But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.