And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
The younger brother hath the more wit.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest. But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt broke my nights with sorrowingIt filled my heart with fearsAnd, when my soul was prone to sing,It filled my eyes with tears. But. . . now that it has gone its way,I miss the dear ole pain. And, sometimes, in the night I prayThat Love might come again.
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.
I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.