All Quotes
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Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.General Robert E. Lee
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion.Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory"
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.Saint Jerome
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.James Russell Lowell
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.Eric Berne
Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES!George Herbert Walker Bush, Nov. 1988
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire