"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools." Thomas Hobbes
"When Oscar came to join his God,
not earth to earth, but sod to sod,
it was for sinners such as this
Hell was created bottomless."
Algernon Charles Swinburne
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." Booker T. Washington
"There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails." Spencer Tracy
"Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country."
"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies." Ruth Elizabeth Davis
"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age." Colin Powell
"We're f890ing forty-year-old (sixty plus! -s) men, and we're behaving like children. It's silly, absolutely f890ing idiotic. Retarded." Eric Burdon