“If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.”
Hank Williams
I told you I was ill.
~ Spike Milligan (epitaph)
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
— Clarence Darrow
“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am”
~ Monty Python
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
- Mark Twain
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
Yogi Berra
"An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie."
— H.G. Wells
Quem di diligunt adolescens moritur.
He whom the gods love dies young.
"The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today"
— St. Francis of Assisi
I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill....
Thomas Edison
“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game”
Will Durant
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
- Winston Churchill
To make a million, start with $900,000.
Morton Shulman
"If I see something saggin', baggin', or draggin', I'm gone have it nipped, tucked, or sucked!"
— Dolly Parton
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 330.
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.”
- Mark Twain
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."
— Norman Mailer
"...we can choose our friends, but we do not choose our family"
A friend
