To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Jane Austen

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.

Heinrich Heine

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.

Abraham Lincoln

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

John Keats

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Selena Gomez

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

William Hazlitt

The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.

Bill Vaughan

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Leni Riefenstahl