Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.