The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

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.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

I just go out every day and try to work hard.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.