By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Queen Victoria

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Congreve

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

Billy Graham

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Kahlil Gibran

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Gunther Grass

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Julian Assange

I wrote a poem to the moon But no one noticed it;Although I hoped that late or soonSomeone would praise a bitIts purity and grace forlone,Its beauty tulip-cool...But as my poem died still-born,I felt a fool.I wrote a verse of vulgar trendSpiced with an oath or two;I tacked a snapper at the endAnd called it Dan McGrew.I spouted it to bar-room boys,Full fifty years away;Yet still with rude and ribald noiseIt lives today.'Tis bitter truth, but there you are-That's how a name is made;Write of a rose, a lark, a star,You'll never make the grade.But write of gutter and of grime,Of pimp and prostitute,The multitude will read your rhyme,And pay to boot.So what's the use to burn and bleedAnd strive for beauty's sake?No one your poetry will read,Your heart will only break.But set your song in vulgar pitch,If rhyme you will not rue,And make your heroine a bitch...Like Lady Lou.

Robert William Service, My Cross

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in theapartment somewhere.

Steven Wright

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Claude Bernard

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

It doesn't bother meThat less than brimming is my cup.Today is crowned with great success!Look at me! I'm up!My first blessing of the day:I'm up!I'm up, and I'm sober;And if nothing of the good happensFor the rest of the day,Before I put my head on a pillow tonight,I can say,'Thank you God, for those two blessings.'

Anon., Sister Maurice