"The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind."

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“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

“It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature1803–1882

#mind

"I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safe…"

— Brendan Behan

Literature1923–1964

#Human Nature

"My countrymen, though not in any partisan sense, I must speak of the services of the men and women who rallied to the colors of the Republic in the World War. America realizes and appreciates the serv…"

— Warren G. Harding

Politics1921–2005

#war

"Tonight, we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for President. Standing here as my mother's daughter, and …"

— Hillary Clinton

Politics1947

#time