There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

Knute Rockne

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature

John Moschitta

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Elvis Presley

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

James Beattie

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Joe DiMaggio

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.

Douglas Wilder

Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.

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