It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Theodore Roosevelt

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Davy Crockett

she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever

Jane Austen

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

Barney Frank

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

Source Unknown

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Louise Bernikow

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Ezra Cornell

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Al Bauman