Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.