We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot — William Shakespeare

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. ♥ 1 Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Wi… Read more → Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. Sonnet cxvi ♥ 1

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. Leslie Halliwell (ed.) Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984); attributed Alfred Hitchcock If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. speech during 1952 Presidential campaign; in J. B. Martin Adlai Stevenson and Illinois (1976) ch. 8 Adlai Stevenson It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455 Voltaire Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Khalil Gibran