Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.

Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.