The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I don't function without a heart, he said angrily and thenadded under his breath as he grabbed at the front of his Tshirt, He's right here.

We may hop when the gods say 'frog, ' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.