There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.