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• And choose an author as you choose a friend.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Essay on Translated Verse, Line 96...
• Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Essay on Translated Verse, Line 113...
• Remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Essay on Translated Verse, Line 87...
• My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Translation of Dies Irae...
• Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Locksley Hall, Line 184...
• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flow
  But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar....
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
  The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come....
• From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Hymn on Christ's Nativity, Line 184...
• The longer you wait in line, the greater the likelihood that you are standing in the wrong line.
  -- The Queue Principle The slowest checkout is always the express lane. -- Flugg's Rule...