Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you just got the story.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

To know and not do, is to not yet know.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

When the light powerfully shines upon us, the darkness cannot dare to touch us!

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.