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

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

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

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

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.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.