We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

Henry David Thoreau

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Grover Cleveland

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

Evelyn Waugh

If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send

Benjamin Franklin

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Marianne Williamson

We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.

Neil Gaiman

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Bruce Catton

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Fred A. Allen

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Milton Berle

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Colin Powell