We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare

The size of the Federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

Ronald Reagan

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Pearl Buck

The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

Thurman W. Arnold

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.

Oscar Wilde

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

Father James Keller

Translation is the art of failure.

Umberto Eco

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Samuel Butler

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Ayn Rand

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.

Charlie Haden

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Solomon Ortiz