A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

Jim Carrey

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ashley Montagu

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Leo Tolstoy

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Orson Welles

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

Bob Balaban

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.

Source Unknown

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.

Gunther Grass

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

Vin Diesel