But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. ~Mark Twain
Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. ~Bronson Alcott
Soup is liquid comfort. ~Author Unknown
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~Lewis Cass
If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ~Elizabeth Bowen
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. ~Karl Marx, Capital, 1867
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
The sunrise never failed us yet. ~Celia Thaxter
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ~John Stuart Mill
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ~Aesop
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ~Mitch Kapor, variation of a quote by Jerome Weisner (Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.)
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius
Red ice sells hockey tickets. ~Bob Stewart
Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. ~Fiona MacLeod
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken
A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. ~Samuel Johnson
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ~Dan Heist