Category: Quotations

That the birds of worry and carefly about your headThis you cannot changeBut that they build nests in your hairThis you can prevent.Chinese Proverb

There’s always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little — and it’s always somebody else.Cullen Hightower

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.Henry David Thoreau

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.Sam Ewig

All of us learn to write in the second grade.  Most of us go on to greater things.Bobby KnightI wonder what he meant by that… does that mean he thinks writers aren’t great, or that basketball players are greater than writers?

There’s a lot of abuse of the singer/songwriter thing.  I think there should be a waiting period for acoustic guitars, much like when you want to buy a handgun.  A background check, just to be sure your not gonna like, open your journal on some street corner and start subjecting innocent passer-bys to your personal…

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill — little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.John Adams