Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

Alan Dundes

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

Cyndi Lauper

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Abraham Lincoln

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Stephen Leacock

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Sam Shoen

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Yitzhak Rabin

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

Steven Wright

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Alejo Carpentier

If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.

Erin Heatherton

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.

Auberon Herbert

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Daisaku Ikeda