Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure

Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.

You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.