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

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.
Mitch Hedberg

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau

Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates

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

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers

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