The only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Thomas Hooker

Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Lee Smolin

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

Bernard Crick

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Wendell Parsons

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard P. Feynman

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Judge not by the eye but by the heart.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Pitt

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?

Sigmund Freud