"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."

"If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf."

"He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

"The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life."

"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what else is not to be overcome?"

"I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one."

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."