Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.