Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Woodrow Wyatt

when we really connect with who God is we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine

Shelley Hitz

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Mike Huckabee

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Kurt Vonnegut

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Plautus

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.

Jonathan Glancey

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Andrew Motion

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

John Burroughs

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

B. C. Forbes

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche