Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.