Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, Then another thousand, then a second hundred, Then still another thousand, then a hundred, Then, when weda mi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, dein cum milia multa fecerimus conturbabimus illa ne sciamus

Catullus, Poem V, the kissing po

I am monarch of all I survey,

William Cowper, The Solitude of

I hate birthdays.

Zane Grey

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Khloe Kardashian

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

J.K. Rowling

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

Juvenal

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann von Goethe

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Herman Cain

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Will Durant