A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
I voted for Obama. I was very happy when he won. But Obama hasn't really been able to effectively do anything that has made me... He hasn't helped the environment. He didn't close Guantanamo Bay. He went deeper into Afghanistan.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
