We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt. ' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
Life should be touched, not strangled.
I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.
If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.