But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons and then blamed when things don't go right.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke a description a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3 1996 ' I'll say to someone.

People may take a job for more money but they often leave it for more recognition.

Money again has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier.

Congress the press and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Money often costs too much.

I think my mom put it best. She said 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Speaking very generally I find that women are spiritually emotionally and often physically stronger than men.

When men attempt bold gestures generally it's considered romantic. When women do it it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue running from a woman's toes to her ears lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between given often enough and sincerely enough would add immeasurably to world peace.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think because thinking is such hard work.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But like all men I don't understand them.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Men as well as women are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.