Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

God's finger touched him and he slept.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

George Gobel

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

John Wooden

A change is as good as a rest.

Stephen King

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Herbert Read

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Charles Lamb

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.

Kate Hudson

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

Johann von Goethe, Elective Affi

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Samuel Butler

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Henry David Thoreau

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

Van Morrison