If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

William M. Evarts

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

George Santayana

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Soren Kierkegaard

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Harold S. Geneen

The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

Rodney Dangerfield

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

John Newton

Patience means self-suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

Tony Goldwyn

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Johnny Cash

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Thomas Frank

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Charl