There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

To the heavens on the wings of a pig.

It don't cost money to ask.

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.