I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.

But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear! Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower, From my vain self, and vain things which have power Upon my soul to make me smile or weep. And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

Among the defects of the bill which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.

Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like to be considered as Christians, and listen willingly to the hypocrites who preach that our righteousness is only that God holds us to be righteous, even if we are bad people, and that our righteousness is without us and not in us, for, according to such teaching, they can be counted as holy people. Woe to those who preach that men of sinful walk can not be considered pious; most are furious when they hear this, as we see and experience, and would like all such preachers to be driven away or even killed; but where that cannot be done, they strengthen their hypocrite preachers with praise, comfort, presents and protection, so that they may go on happily and give no place to the truth, however clear it may be.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.