What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Ambrose Bierce

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Proverb

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.If you're kind that's it.

Roald Dahl

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Sarah Dessen

What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?

Ogwo David Emenike

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Oscar Wilde

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

To me fair friend, you can never be old for as you when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

Jimmy Dean

If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

John Suckling