Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.

In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him?

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer.

life sucks, and then you die...