Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. - Thomas Tusser,

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Everybody has a photographic memory. . . . Some don't have film.

I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

A room without books is a body without soul.

Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa, When that dull distance shall no more divide us; And I no more shall scale thy wall by night To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

The cure for anger is delay.

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain; The Queen commands, and we'll obey, Over the hills and far away.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.