If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.

William Shakespeare

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Donna Tartt

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

Jason Behr

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

Thomas Fuller

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Eamon de Valera

Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

George E. Brown, Jr.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.

Debra Messing

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

Victor Hugo

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

Andrea Dworkin