Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Dean Kamen

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Willa Cather

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Thomas Mcguane

Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

Mac Davis

Cuando uno se enamora las cuadrillasdel tiempo hacen escala en el olvidola desdicha se llena de milagrosel miedo se convierte en osadíay la muerte no sale de su cuevaenamorarse es un presagio gratisuna ventana abierta al árbol nuevouna proeza de los sentimientosuna bonanza casi insoportabley un ejercicio contra el infortuniopor el contrario desenamorarsees ver el cuerpo como es y nocomo la otra mirada lo inventabaes regresar más pobre al viejo enigmay dar con la tristeza en el espejo

Mario Benedetti Enamorarse y no

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edward W. Howe

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Elisabeth KublerRoss

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

William H. Macy

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Johann von Goethe