
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. —
Herman Melville

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at. —
Pliny The Elder

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. —
Lou Gehrig

To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life. —
Robert Burns

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months ... and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead. —
Michael Ian Black

You are a God Act like one! —
Timothy Leary

It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing. —
Wallace Stegner

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it. —
David A. Siegel