Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Love is the ecstasy of life.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

You look for inspiration, I do, that got me going.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.