We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

Abraham Lincoln

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Rick Perry

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

William Shakespeare

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

Len Goodman

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Susie Orbach

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

James A. Michener

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)