(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

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

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

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

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.