Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that – one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but its the same story with different characters and different costumes. – James Randi
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of todays music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved. – Roberta Flack
