Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away; Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.

We grow small trying to be great.

The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird? -Edward H. Richards.

People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Success has made failures of many men.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word-- From those who spoke her praise.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases!

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

talk 'till your blue in the face.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction whatever contained in it of that stupendous event, the rise and establishment of Christianity, in comparison with which all the preceding Jewish history is as nothing. With the exception of the book of Daniel, which the Jews themselves never classed among the prophecies, and an obscure text of Jeremiah, there is not a passage in all the Old Testament which favours the notion of a temporal Messiah. What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come? What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Napoleon?

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.