It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Before you speak, make certain you have something worthwhile to say.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.