Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.

'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Mel Karmazin is meretricious. His Viacom is avaricious His CBS is quite litigious His public nudity is planned and vicious. His Likud Party is vengeful, vicious. It's time to exorcise the legions which have entered Karmazin through spirit lesions.

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets [the] "Old Testament"? Do they not set forth the covenant of grace? The doctrine of justification by faith -- does not Paul in his Epistle to the Romans prove it from Genesis and from the Psalms? Where is the doctrine of substitution and the vicarious sufferings of the messiah set forth more clearly than in Leviticus and in the 53rd of Isaiah? The term "Old Testament" leads people to fancy it is an antiquated book; whereas, in many respects, it is newer than the New Testament, referring more fully to the age of glory and blessedness on the earth which is still before us.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Pansies for ladies all--.

All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.