That, who keeps his mouth, keeps his Soul.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on, blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video

Modesty died when false modesty was born.

There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Make a good use of the present.

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.