I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

Jonathan Swift

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Miranda Lambert

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.

Kid Rock

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

Florence Griffith Joyner

War is failure of diplomacy.

John Dingell

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Lewis Mumford

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Franz Kafka

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Aristotle

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thomas Carlyle

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

William Shakespeare