One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.

One major factor that makes most achievers to fail is their ability to know where they are going and becoming unaware of what they will have to do when they get there!

To know the world, one must construct it

My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

Six happy years together Such a perfect matching You're entering the 7 year itch zone This is no time for scratching

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

No. --Claire Bullshit! Yes, a world of yes. --Eve

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.