Brian Friel Philadelphia Here I Come Quotes & Sayings

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? — Alexander Pope

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style. — Rodney Crowell

1. Fidelity & Allegiance sworn to ye King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by ye law of ye land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves, and ye King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those Oaths. 2. When, therefore, the obligation by the law to fidelity and allegiance ceases, that by the Oath also ceases ... — Isaac Newton

It was unnerving, to think she was being psychoanalyzed by someone who frequently complained that the castle walls had started bleeding again. — Marissa Meyer

It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected. — Jeffrey Eugenides

But he knew he'd started reading books on Sri Lanka, because he needed to explain things, to himself and others -- because if that world, his world over there had ever made sense, it seemed far more confused when questioned from outside. — Pradeep Jeganathan

In 1812 the U.S. Army consisted of fewer than seven thousand regular troops. — Gordon S. Wood

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own. — Martin Luther