The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Emma Carleton

The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.

Mark Sullivan

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Pasquier Quesnel

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth

Gerald Vann

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Keith Richards

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)

Walt Whitman

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Felicity Huffman

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Dallas Willard

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.

Dorothy H. Rath