You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He who marries for money earns it.

Yiddish Proverb

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

Johnny Vegas

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

Peter Brimelow

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

Eric Hoffer

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,To the eternal sun, I render backThese atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

Friedrich von Schiller, Maid of

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Voltaire

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Oscar Wilde

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Orison Swett Marden

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Christopher Hitchens

Golf is the pursuit of the infinite.

Jim Murray