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• But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, Maturest counsels.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 112...
• But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word
  And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be....
• Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
  And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
• The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xv, Stanza 13...
• Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoe
  hey were easiest for his feet. -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Friend...
• His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 645...
• One thing to be said about Packard Automobiles, none of them were recalled!
• My father's great dread was going senile, said one aristocrat, apologizing for his father, who was happily exposing himself in the orangery.
  But now he has, he's enjoying himself enormously. -- Jilly Coope...
• HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
  So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration....