One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.

The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid responsibility and the moral, material, and political consequences of admission.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Beryl Coronet.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife, At morn or noon, by night or day, As time conducts him on his way, How oft doth man, by care oppressed, Find in an Inn a place of rest.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks; He comes--I see his glaring eyes: Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain,--I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.