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I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."
The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.
I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.
The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price.
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"
I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.
When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.
The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.
Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.