The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.