"A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."

"Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."

"OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard."

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."

"As you map out the future, do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it."

"Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture."

"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."

"Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink."