Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy; When I was young! When I was young?--Ah, woful when!

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.

So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Busier than a one-eyed cat watching two mouse holes.

We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Don't say" if I could, I would".Say instead "If I can, I will".

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

A host in himself.

To say that a man can not love one woman at a time is ridiculous. It is like saying a musician needs more than one violin to play the same piece of music.

Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die! Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.