The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce, Ulysses, ch. 2,

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Deborah Cox

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Hurry means that we gather impressions but have no experiences, that we collect acquaintances but make no friends, that we attend meetings but experience no encounter. We must recover eternity if we are to find time, and eternity is what Jesus came to restore. For without it, there can be no charity.

D.T. Niles

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Bill Cosby

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Where one door closes, another opens.

Don Quijote

Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

Plato

We don't make music - it makes us.

David Byrne

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Herbert A. Otto