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“Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.”
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“the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.”
Source : Ellin Devis (1801). “The Accidence: Or First Rudiments of English Grammar. Designed for the Use of Young Ladies”, p.131
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“the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.”
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“Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.”
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“And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.”
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“Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.”
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“I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.”
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“I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.”
Source : "The Legend Of Bob Metcalfe" by Scott Kirsner, www.wired.com. November 01, 1998. 
