A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? because we’re going to have a strange life.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Keep right on lying to me. that's what I want you to do.
Wine is a grand thing," I said. "it makes you forget all the bad.
You know I don't love any one but you. you shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
If life is a bowl of cherries, what am i doing in the pits?
I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.
You've such a lovely temperature.
I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.
A child needs your love the most when he deserves it least.
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
She's as funny as a toothache.
There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.
Every puppy should have a boy.
My big fish must be somewhere.
I am a republican, a black, dyed in the wool republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. it violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.