When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.