George Santayana

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.