Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Steven Wright

Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.

Faraaz Kazi

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

David Friedman

My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

Kelly Clarkson

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper 4 times 3 while I was reading it

Rodney Dangerfield

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Neil Gaiman

No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

Jane Austen

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Fortune Cookie

May I be permitted to add a few words with regard to the poetry? Then I will speak to those who are judges thereof, with all freedom and unreserve. To these I may say, with-out offence, 1. In these hymns there is no doggerel ; no botches ; nothing put in to patch up the rhyme ; no feeble expletives. 2. Here is nothing turgid or bombast, on the one hand, or low and creeping, on the other. 3. here are no cant expressions ; no words without meaning. Those who impute this to us, know not what they say. We talk common sense, both in prose and verse, and use no words but in a fixed and determinate sense. 4. Here are, allow me to say, both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the English language; and, at the same time, the utmost simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity. Lastly, I desire men of taste to judge, (these are the only competent judges,) whether there be not in some of the following hymns the true spirit of poetry, such as cannot be acquired by art and labour, but must be the gift of nature. By labour, a man may become a tolerable imitator of Spenser, Shakspeare, or Milton ; and may heap together pretty compound epithets, as pale-eyed, meek-eyed, and the like ; but unless he be born a poet, he will never attain the genuine spirit of poetry.

John Wesley, preface to the 1780