A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

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.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble