You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

If you have inner peace, you can create peace everywhere.

Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.

Overrated is order.

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

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I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.