In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

hose job (cheated again).

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.

A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.

when the work is done, I will have time for myself.

And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.