If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.