No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Discipline
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. – Will Durant Category: Discipline
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. – Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle Category: Carpe Diem
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November Category: Miscellaneous
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. – William Penn Category: power
