An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

People don't follow ordinary people

I don't believe in astrology - of course that's very typical of Leos.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.