When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

It was crazy how a hearse and a pair of sneakers could cheer a guy up.

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.