Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Oscar Wilde

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Dejan Stojanovic

Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in this joyful season. It's the start of a New Year of trials and tribulations, and if everybody that does anything gets caught, it will be mostly trials.

Will Rogers

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Diane Wakoski

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Thomas Carlyle

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai E. Stevenson

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Max L. Lucado

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Joan Jett

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

Robert Fulghum

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Lord Chesterfield