They are able because they think they are able.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colours.But they all have to learn to live in the same box.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Life is full of surprises. Just say "never" and you'll see.

But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'

Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.

Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel! She, like thee, was forced to bear All reflections, foul or fair. Thou art deep and bright within, Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne; Thou art very frail as well, Frail as flesh is,--so was Nell.

Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.

He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.