Beauty is only skin deep...but ugly goes all the way to the bone!

Still desiring, we live without hope.

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.

If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.

Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear

Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.