Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.