Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.
Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.
A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.
Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.