Up at the crank of dawn.

Time wounds all heels.

Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

Familiarity breeds attempt.

The chickens have come home to roast.

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.

I look like the wrath of grapes.

The coffee will be ready in a jitney.

Doctor, feel my purse.

We've been insufferable friends for years.

True education comes from a passion for learning.

Grade is only a number.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.