Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I!

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

-Serv.

birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

Foxhunting the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.