Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.

Kurt Vonnegut

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Oscar Wilde

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

Albert Brooks

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Phyllis Diller

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Benjamin Franklin

If one party resolves to demand what the other resolves to refuse, the dispute can be determined only by arbitration; and between powers who have no common superior, there is no other arbitrator than the sword

Samuel Johnson

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Edward W. Howe

Mediocrity is Death.

Suleman Abdullah

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Barbara de Angelis

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

William S. Burroughs

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

John Joly