Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.
“It gets late early out here.”
I'm a politician.I run for office. That's my profession.
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The wheel is come full circle.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
tradition gives the one thing many shapes.
How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.
What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
And softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
My wretched dragon is perplexed.
Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.