Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Dave Barry

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Elizabeth Warren

I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.

Patti LaBelle

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Bernard Manning

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Sidney Poitier

A manager is an assistant to his men.

Thomas J. Watson

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

King James I

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

Kelly Hu

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt