A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual and physical nature.

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.