For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Susie Bright

We hate some persons because we do not know them, and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Karl Kraus

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

James Baldwin

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Juvenal

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all I was born with this, for better or for worse.

Ivan Reitman

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

Tim Bishop

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Judith Guest

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

G. K. Chesterton

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Tina Turner