The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Henry Fielding

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Garrison Keillor

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way

Henry David Thoreau

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

Plato

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

Al Pacino

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Edward W. Howe

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Henry James