It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Charles V

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

John Ralston Saul, The Unconscio

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Ambrose Bierce

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Frank Abagnale

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Napoleon Hill

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Miguel de Cervantes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy