Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved. Captain Harvile: Do you claim that for your sex? Anne Elliot: We do not forget you as soon as you forget us. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You always have business of some sort or other to take you back into the world. Captain Harvile: I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness. Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.

William Shakespeare

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

Kurt Vonnegut

The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

Bible

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

George Orwell

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

General George Patton

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong, On the first moo

Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.

Virgil

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan