'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views. And writers, of course, subscribe enthusiastically to this idea.
If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
It's hard to get started as a young entrepreneur - often much harder than one would ever realize.
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
