People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

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.

Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I’ll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.

Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Southampton have always been at the top, apart from the seasons when they weren't.

The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.

It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.