Stress this

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Clive Barker

Second law of fashion

Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.  

Susan Catherine

Beyond suds?

It's easy to be clean on the outside. All you need is soap and water and a scrubbing brush. It's harder to be clean on the inside.

 Girl Scout Handbook

Look again

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone. 

Anne Sexton

Beware of all enterprises....

... that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Just do it?

Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Ask me no questions...

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

H. H. Munro

Cool your jets?

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

Malcolm Forbes

Ever ready

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

Robert Bloch

Nether-regional warfare?

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.


Mark Twain

Home repair?

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Terry Pratchett

There is no problem so big....

...it cannot be run away from.

Linus Van Pelt

I hate to advocate....

...drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Do as I say?

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For every complex problem...

There is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

Aim high?

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

G. K. Chesterton

Expect nothing....

Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

Lost

We're just travelers on the thruway of life. Some of the exits are marked. Others aren't.

Adage for a new age

Silence is golden.
Duct tape is silver.

The measure of a man

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.