Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

If theres another world he lives in bliss if there is none he made the best of this.

Afflictions sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve how exquisite the bliss

My dear my native soil For whom my warmest wish to heavn is sent long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil be blest with health and peace and sweet content

Even thou who mournst the daisys fate That fate is thine no distant date Stern Ruins ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom Till crushed beneath the furrows weight Shall be thy doom

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Think when your castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop What ragings must his veins convulse That still eternal gallop

Anticipation forward points the view.

But to see her was to love her Love but her and love forever.

Oh, my Luve's like a red red rose that's newly sprung in June: O, my Luve's like the melodie that's sweetly play'd in tune.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

Some of the worlds best educators are grandparents.

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Children need models rather than critics.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

To be accepted as a real traveller you must lug your rucksack around for at least three months anything less and youre just a tourist.

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.