I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart

W.B. Yeats

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read

Mark Twain

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Gray Davis

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

Lil Wayne

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Ralph Nader

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Kathleen Turner

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

Lawrence Welk

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Publilius Syrus

I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison