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• Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.
  He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrow...
• Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
  Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?...
• Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made
  Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• Clerk: Yep, `General Sherman'. They say he's five hundred pounds of bottom-dwelling fury, don't you know.
  No one knows how old he is, but if you ask me (and most people do), he's hundred years if he's a day....
• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Lycidas, Line 168...
• Morton Downey...ever since he was eight years old, his parents pleaded with him to run away from home.
• Homer: How dare you talk about Ned Flanders like that.
  He's a wonderful, kind, caring man -- maybe even more so than me....