Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Will Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Kurt Cobain

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

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma Bombeck

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau