The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.