In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.