Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Sabbath, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Ambrose Bierce

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Augustine of Hippo

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Al Capone

Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.

Proverb

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Doug Coupland

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Nick Cave

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

Source Unknown

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

Greg LeMond

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

C.S. Lewis

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Robert Gurney

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Kin Hubbard

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Napoleon Bonaparte