Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains. – Washington Irving, letter to Pierre Paris Irving (nephew), 1824 December 7th
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so Ive got all these names… but my Dad always called me Mick. – Mickey Spillane
