A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Felix Adler

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Mia Love

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna

He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Virginia Woolf

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Jim Barksdale

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Mr. T

I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Barbra Streisand, Interview with

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

Alice Caldwell Rice