On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
W. C. Fields

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William Shakespeare

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost

Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle