And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through."

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.

Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.

Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.

Nothing is stronger than habit.