A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Gouverneur Morris

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Sir John Herschel

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Theodore Roosevelt

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

David Byrne

It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings, in the name of science, of

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Euripides

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

Charles Horton Cooley

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

Josh McDowell

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.

Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

Angela Kinsey

No te averguences por lo que otros, más cobardes y más ciegos, opinen de ti. Porque esa es su debilidad, no la tuya

Marisa Rubio