Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!

I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.

I seen the look in your eyes...I reached out to touch you but feared I would mark your skin. I do not want just tonight, my love. I want to know that always...always...you will be mine.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.