Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

A parishioner had undergone a serious operation and was still under the influence of the sedative when the vicar came, so the vicar just said a prayer and left. The next day he returned and asked the patient if he had been aware of his visit. "I vaguely remember your visit yesterday. I remember opening my eyes and thinking 'I can't be in Heaven because there is the vicar'.".

Money makes the man.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.

Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.

Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Men are used as they use others.

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills.