A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet, How mony lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.

The Tortoise and the Eagle A tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. I will give you, she said, all the riches of the Red Sea. I will teach you to fly then, said the Eagle, and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: I have deserved my present fate, for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?' If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.

He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a "carrier".

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.

We are what we believe we are.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.