I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.
I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.
Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.