If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Lewis Carroll

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
Andy Rooney

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy Rooney

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Joe Biden

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
Dave Barry

If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
Dave Barry

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck Palahniuk

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.
Richard Branson

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Emo Philips