Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Dave Grohl

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

Ian Mcewan

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.

Oscar Wilde

I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

Cassandra Clare

There is a supply for every demand.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

George Cooper

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Bertrand Russell

Empty pockets make empty heads.

William Carlos Williams

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Queen Victoria