''I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.''
- Nathan Hale, Speech before his execution, Sept. 22, 1776

''It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.''
Aaliyah

"You're only given a little spark of madness; you mustn't lose it."
- Robin Williams

''But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven by man is cursed alway.''

- N. P. Willis, Unseen Spirits

''If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.''

- Douglas Jerrold, Slander

''Her very frowns are fairer far than smiles of other maidens'' are.

- Hartley Coleridge, Song: She is Not Fair

''And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one'' cubit?

- New Testament, Luke, XII, 25

''Sing me the songs I delighted to hear long, long ago, long ago.''

- T. H. Bayly, The Long Ago

''If I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought.''

- Sir Isaac Newton, Remark to Dr. Bentley

''Better dwell in the midst of alarms than reign in this horrible place.''

- Cowper, From verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk

"Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say "Good-by!"

- Mary Mapes Dodge, Snowflakes

''He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.''

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

''But to go to school in a summer morn, oh, it drives all joy away!''
 - Blake, The Schoolboy

''If you trace it back, you will find begun in that wretched House of They.''
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, They Say

''It is man's perdition to be safe when he ought to die for the truth.''
- R. Vines, Sermon, 1642  (quoted by Emerson)

''The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.''
- Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1

His tongue dropt manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.
- Milton, Paradise Lost, II

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have Nots.
- Cervantes, Don Quixote, II

He who says, what is mine is yours and what is yours is yours, is a saint.
- Babylonian Talmud, Aboth, V

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
- Stevenson, Treasure Island

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Thoreau, Journal, Sept., 1851

Man is a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
- Pascal, Pense'es, VI

That he is mad, 'tis true 'tis pity; and pity 'tis 'tis true.
- Shakespeare, Macbeth, I, 3

Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?
- Shakespeare, Macbeth, I, 3

Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
- Shakespeare, As You Like It, IV, 1

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence.
 Byron, Don Juan, III

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
- George Santayana, Articles and Essays

Life is short; a little hoping, a little dreaming, and then - good-night!
- Leon de Montenaeken, Peu de chose et presque trop

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, V

When liberty is gone, life grows insipid and has lost its relish.
- Addison, Cato, II, 3

O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason!
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III, 2

I have drunken deep of joy, and I will taste no other wine to-night.
- Shelley, The Cenci, I, 8

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, that creepeth o'er ruins old.
- Charles Dickens, The Ivy Green (in Pickwick Papers)

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man

All the perfumes of Arabia, will not sweeten this little hand.

- Shakespeare, Macbeth, V. 1

How very weak the very wise, how very small the very great are!

- Thackeray, Vanitas Vanitatum

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

- Whittier, A Song of Harvest

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, with vassals and serfs at my side.

- Alfred Bunn, The Bohemian Girl

Culture is "to know the best that has been said, and thought in the world."

- Mathew Arnold, Literature and Dogma

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

- Jacques Maritain, I Believe

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

- Voltaire

Alas for the rarity, of Christian charity, under the sun!

- Thomas Hood, The Bridge of Sighs

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.

- Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, A Shadow of the Night

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I know not where;

- Longfellow, The Arrow and the Song

And malt does not more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

- A. E. Housman,  A Shropshire Lad

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

- Hervey Allen,  Anthony Adverse

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

- Old Testament, Job, III, 17

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have Kept the faith.
- New Testament, II Timothy, IV, 7

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
- Bernard Baruch

The above Unintended American Sentences compiled July, 2002

"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."
- Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender and Robotron.

"Genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul."
 - Matthew Arnold

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens."
- E. B. White

"Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower."

- unknown

"If it's in the closet, it's dirty; if it's on the floor, it's clean."
 - teenage girl discussing laundry

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
 - Mae West

Communism can never succeed unless Christianity fails.

- Billy Graham

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

- Billy Graham

Good Laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

- Aristotle,   'Politics'

Those who deny freedom for others deserve it not for themselves…

- Abraham Lincoln

There are many lessons to be learned from the events in Beijing.

- Edwin Meese

We don’t have a trillion dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough: …

- Ronald Reagan

You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens.

- Ronald Reagan

The only true solution to crime is to restore the family.

- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

Protectionism is pure and total folly, because it always fails.

- William Edward Simon

It is not just the poor whom the government assumes to be stupid.

- Richard Art Viguerie

Years ago, there was far more pride and self-respect in America.

- Walter E. Williams

Things without remedy, should be without regard: what is done, is done.

- Shakespeare

Ours is a country deliberately founded on a good idea.

- John Gunther

America is the only idealist nation in the world.

- Woodrow Wilson

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

- Eugene J. McCarthy

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

- George Gilder

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

- Margaret Thatcher

In a sort of ghastly way we remove the organ and demand the function.

- C. S. Lewis

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

- Franklin D. Rooselvelt

A conservative is a liberal who was mugged the night before.

- Frank L. Rizzo

Foreign relations is an open book – generally a checkbook.

- Will Rogers

Liberty is the delicate fruit of a ripe civilization.

- Lord Acton

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

- George Washington

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

 - Woodrow Wilson

There is one cardinal rule: “Never Despair”; that word is forbidden.

- Winston Churchill

Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s little nut that held it’s ground.

-   Anonymous

The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

- Joseph Conrad

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

- John James Ingalls

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

The role of government is to strengthen our freedom – not deny it.

- Margaret Thatcher

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

- Konrad Adenauer

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.

- Patrick Henry

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

- Thomas Macaulay

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

- the Bible,  Exodus 21:12

Nothing doeth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

- Francis Bacon

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

- Thomas Carlyle

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must must turn his back on the crowd.

- James Crook

When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘‘We did it ourselves.’’

- Lao-Tzu

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

- Harry S Truman

 Vote for the man who promises least; He'll be the least diappointing.
- Bernard Baruch

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This compilation of Unintended American Sentences copyrighted PoetPatriot, Roger W Hancock  © June, 2002   

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