Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Marcel Proust

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Karl Marx

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Henry Vaughan

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn

Lucille Ball

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Plato

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

Carolyn Kenmore, Mannequin: My L