After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children. Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber, who saw ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies.

Charles Darwin, Descent of Man,

Be patient, Ophelia.Love,Hamlet

Kurt Vonnegut

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Lord Byron

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

Anthony Weiner

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Richard Marcinko

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed.

Samuel Hahnemann

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

Audrey Niffenegger

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

Be the one, be worthy.

Elsie Chapman

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

Orlando Bloom

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

Steven Herrick

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Rita Dove