A princely mind will undo a private family.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Popularity is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

I love my family.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.