We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.

In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday-- But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

All's fair in love and war.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.

And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat, So we lift our trusting eyes From the hills our Fathers trod: To the quiet of the skies: To the Sabbath of our God.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

A word gets its meaning by the person who speaks it.