Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
Circumstances alter cases.
Punctuality is the sole of business.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.
But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.