There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Sir William Temple

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

Taylor Lautner

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Marcus Aurelius

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Every plant knows this: It

Scott Sorrell

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

Paul Weyrich

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

John Updike

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Kahlil Gibran

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

Ashley Greene

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

David Livingstone

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Leslie Fiedler

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton