You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Muddy Waters

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Christopher Columbus

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Terry Pratchett

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Abraham Lincoln

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Booth Tarkington

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

John Flavel, Sermon: The Success

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Marc Chagall

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Thor Heyerdahl

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.

Prince Of Wales Charles

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter