Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows ones nose. – Heinrich Heine Category: Crying
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. – Titus Maccius Plautus Category: Hope
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture Category: Civilization
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison Category: Poetry
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. – Richard M. Nixon Category: Change