We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Edward Lear

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Ashley Tisdale

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Walter Lippmann

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Oscar Wilde

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Diane Wakoski

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong: beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, peolpe of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Henry James

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Dan Quayle

How red the rose that is the soldier

Wallace Stevens

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Joel Osteen

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie