All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Like Theon .

Shape up or ship out!

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

One hand doesn't always know what the other is doing.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

When all is done, there is no such error or heresy, nothing so fundamentally opposed to religion, as a wicked life.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its close-- It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane; And dusk, and dew, and home again!

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.

Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there! Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Many people spend their health for wealth, and then try to spend their wealth for health.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.