It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma Bombeck

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
Mitch Hedberg

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'
Mitch Hedberg

Look your best - who said love is blind?
Mae West

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim Rohn

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Ted Turner

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
Joan Crawford

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Jonathan Swift