You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever.

Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you … and Ibelieve you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

Why don't we get drunk and screw?

It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It’ll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)