You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.

Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.

I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Under pressure, you can win with your mind.

What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris.