Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Duffy Daugherty

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

Douglas Hofstadter

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Leo Tolstoy

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Mickey Rooney

That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history and daylight have arrived.That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form.

Victor Hugo

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

Every life is precious.

Rick Perry

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

Ernest Hemingway

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Walt Whitman

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn