As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.
If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.
We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.
Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.
It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.
Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.
Myrnin to Claire: "If anyone comes to bite you while I'm gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly.