For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Thomas Jefferson

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

Robin Yount

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

There were no last words. His wife was with him to the end.

Les Dawson

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare, Much Ado ab

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Will Rogers

In the mind of an ordinary, 1 1 = 2; but, in the mind of an extraordinary, 1 1 = 10.

Joey Lawsin

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln