My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

William C. Bryant

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Mike Farrell

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Calvin Trillin

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Anton Chekhov

Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Lenny Bruce

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

Francesca Annis

Love is as old as time, though it is considerably more difficult to stuff inside a watch.

Jarod Kintz

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

Deepa Bhushan

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.

Brian Hwang