He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
-- Horace

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
-- R. D. Hitchcock

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.
-- Lady Gaga, Ellen Degeneres Show, 09-08-09

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
-- O. Henry

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
-- David T. Wolf

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
-- Adam Clayton Powell Jr., "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary