Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. – Sam Ewing
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some dont turn up at all. – Sam Ewing
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about. – Sam Ewing
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. – Sam Ewing
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881