Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Oliver Goldsmith

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Dale Carnegie

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Colin Powell

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Sydney J. Harris

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Doug Horton

I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

H. G. Bissinger

Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions with Members of Congress in which they can explain in detail the reasons for positions they advocate. Because our congressional representation is based on geographical boundaries, the lobbyists who speak for the various economic, commercial, and other functional interests of this country serve a very useful purpose and have assumed an important role in the legislative process.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Rod Stewart

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Francis Keppel

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Jane Austen