Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust

Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein.

Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan

Das also war des Pudels Kern

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust

I do not like green eggs and ham.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

-Thomas Jefferson

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

-Maya Angelou

If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
- author unknown

“Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?”

-Erma Bombeck

Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired;
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.

- Edmund Waller, Go, lovely rose!

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

– Oscar Wilde

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

-William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

-Cecily, in The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wild

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

-Carl Sandburg

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
-H. L. Mencken

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
-Dave Berry

They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—
They roused him with mustard and cress—
They roused him with jam and judicious advice—
They set him conundrums to guess.