I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Michel de Montaigne

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

Harvey Fierstein

Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.

Kahlil Gibran

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

H. L. Mencken

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Neil Gaiman

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde

I saw a sign: Rest Area 25 Miles. That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired.

Steven Wright

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

David Frum