John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer.' Everything, I say 'I bet you.' I love to win.

Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.