In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

John McCarthy

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

Daniel Johns

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

William Shakespeare

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Malcolm X

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Ezra Pound

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

Hillary Clinton

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Richard Bach