If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.

Enough ants can eat an elephant.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.

What a case am I in. -As You Like It. Epilogue.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put His violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then , To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,

The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.

Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Coins are made by mint of metal. Character is made by dint of mettle.

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.