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• Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave
  And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!...
• Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
  -- James Beattie (1735-1803) -- The Minstrel, Book i, Stanza 1...
• Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarm
  Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms....
• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Universal Prayer, Stanza 1...
• In ev'ry age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Fables, Part i, The Rat-catcher and Ca...
• All you Klingons, you want to ravage helpless Earthwomen.
  Brute." -- They really should have named this, "I Married a Klingon." -- From DC's STAR TREK...
• And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. -- James Beattie (1735-1803) -- The Hermi
• Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Coningsby, Book iii, Chap. i...
• Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 65...