Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

He left his footprints burnt into my heart.

When I intentionally thank God for the good gifts that come from being his child, I find it almost impossible to maintain my sour disposition.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

We don't like the storms because they challenge us! But for this very reason exactly, we must like them! Whoever challenges us gives us the opportunity to rise higher!

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.