"Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

“Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.”

“It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.”

“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”

“There are a lot of bigger issues we have to be worrying about with respect to our relationship to China, and the longer they drag out the situation, the more difficult it is to get this relationship back on track.”

“Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.”

“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”