The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.