Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 15:9

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!

Charles Dickens

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

Nikki Giovanni

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate Stat

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

Joan Jett

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.

Christopher Marlowe

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Margaret Fuller

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Christopher Hitchens

Language is the pedigree of nations.

Johnson

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Bertrand Russell

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau