Smile, damn it !! Smile.

"Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."

Trying to squash a rumour is like trying to unring a bell.

The world is run by C students.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

Good, better, best. Never rest Until good be better And better best.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

There is a solemn luxury in grief.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

Before Johan Cruijff is going to make a mistake, he isn't making that mistake. making that mistake.