I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

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.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.