I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin — different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business. – Bernard Stonehouse
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. – Max Beerbohm, “Hosts and Guests,” 1918
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
When I first became famous, I didnt know if I could go where I wanted to because I didnt know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didnt know what to do with that. – Jill Scott
