Only cowards insult dying majesty.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Without complicit submission, authority holds no power.

onceI heard her huskylaughter pour out likerain after a drought

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.