Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas De Quincey

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?

Bruce Burton

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

Kay Granger

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

Jimmy Choo

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.

Henry Ford

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

Ronald Reagan

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Sun Ra

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Cassandra Clare

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

Frank Knight

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

Patricia Briggs

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas B. Macaulay