A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

The busy have no time for tears.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.