It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Every mile is two in winter.

Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can thy enemy so hurt thee by his violence, as thou dost hurt thyself if thou love him not. And let it not seem to you impossible to love him. Believe first that it can be done, and pray that the will of God may be done in you. For what good can thy neighbor's ill do to thee? If he had no ill, he would not even be thine enemy. Wish him well, then, that he may end his ill, and he will be thine enemy no longer. For it is not the human nature in him that is at enmity with thee, but his sin.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise.

Red velvet room rolls me in its mouth and swallows me to sleep **.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.