If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Philip Massinger

It is legal because I wish it.

Louis XIV

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

Newt Gingrich

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance.

Iris Murdoch

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.

Habeeb Akande

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

Naomi Wolf

God doesn't foresee the humans making their free contributions in a future, but sees them doing so in His unbounded now. And obviously to watch a man doing something is not to make him do it.

C.S. Lewis

Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.

Proverb

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

Benjamin Franklin

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Ron Chernow