What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

God's Love for you through Christ Jesus is more than a Valentine's card or gift.

A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment ” he said. “I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine.

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.