The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

Carla Bley

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education

Yvor Winters

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

John Updike

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Lee Trevino

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Rose Wilder Lane

I understand that finance can be very complex.

Kevin Harrington

On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare, The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire, Of hasty love or headlong ire.

Walter Scott

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Walter Lippmann

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Newton Gatambia