Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

Good deeds have echoes.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

Terry Pratchett

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Larry David

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Henry Bolingbroke

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

Hillary Clinton

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

John Rowland

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Maurice Sendak

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

Adam Schiff

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

John Erskine, The Complete Life

Truth never hurts the teller.

Robert Browning