Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.

George Eliot

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Henry Ford

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

Curt Simmons

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

William Ames

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

Rupert Holmes

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Victor Hugo

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

John Hersey

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Matthew Simpson