The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.

We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine