A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.