If you score one more goal than the other team, you win.

The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.

There are no office hours for leaders.

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Beauty and grace command the world.

[At the Garden of Olives Monastery] "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice. "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers." "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?" "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.

Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.