A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth — and endures all the rest. – Helen Rowland
Lincolns stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition – in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. – John George Nicolay
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. – J.T. Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stronger, 1987
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958
