Oh the thumb-sucker's thumbMay look wrinkled and wetAnd withered, and white as the snow,But the taste of a thumbIs the sweetest taste yet(As only we thumb-sucker's know).
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas Aquinas
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
André Gide
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson Mandela
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
Joseph Sugarman
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka
I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.
Steven Wright
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
Aeschylus
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
Robin Williams
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Anonymous
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
Amy Sedaris
I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either.
Ricky Schroder
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
Sebastian Bach
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
V. S. Naipaul
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
Bill Rancic
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