No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

William Shakespeare

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

For tho' I know he loves me, To-night my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.

Sara Teasdale

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

Samuel Wilson

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Aristotle Onassis

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

William Osler

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

Sandra Bullock

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

John Berger

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Tom Lantos

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Ovid

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson