When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

There are obligations to nobility.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Clouds that thunder do not always rain.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene, He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak.

Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.

Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890 Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him. ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought August 21, 2000 At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.

When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything a manager can do to help one's colleagues is a must to survive. Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P., President of the American Institute of Stress, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College -Wolfgang Hultner.

Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.

Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.