Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

Andre Maurois

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Samuel Johnson

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

William Henry Channing

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

Abraham Lincoln

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Mary McDonnell

I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.

Benjamin Franklin

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Henry David Thoreau

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroghs

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Otto von Bismarck

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti