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You can tell alot about a fellow\'s character by his way of eating
jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan


But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was
elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

CXI



O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,

The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,

That did not better for my life provide

Than public means which public manners breeds.

Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,

And almost thence my nature is subdu\'d

To what it works in, like the dyer\'s hand:

Pity me, then, and wish I were renew\'d;

Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink,

Potions of eisel \'gainst my strong infection;

No bitterness that I will bitter think,

Nor double penance, to correct correction.

  Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye,

  Even that your pity is enough to cure me.

 	--William Shakespeare

You are the m
usic while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot