FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Well, I was a drama kid.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.