Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
Music is essentially useless as is life.
George Santayana
Buy buy says the sign in the shop window, Why why says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge
What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other.
Jane Austen
For he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
Edgar Cayce
Brought up to respect the conventions love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis
The player envies only the player the poet envies only the poet.
William Hazlitt
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Mason Cooley
