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- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"
- For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- I hate women because they always know where things are.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
- If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
- Jewish Proverb
- You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- Thomas Berger
- I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
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