M.K. Alexander Quotes

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

Dogs, ye have had your day!

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.