After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.

Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.

George Herbert

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Henry Giles

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Congreve

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

Henry A. Wallace

Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the tenderness he showed me was life-giving water.

Colleen Houck

Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.

Stephen Richards

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time.

Leo Tolstoy

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

James Laughlin

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Jane Howard

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Willard Libby