Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use

Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Listen to her voice, don't look at her.

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

Steve Sanders lives on in our hearts and in our minds.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.