Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Lionel Richie

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Kelly Clarkson

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Terry Pratchett

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha

What can we do without pain in front of happiness?

Sorin Cerin

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Charles Montesquieu

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do youhave any toy train schedules?

Steven Wright