It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

When you sign yourself up for what you're doing, you have to take care of yourself.

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.