Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself, ' said Gabriel.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.