When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – William Shakespeare, King Lear Category: Curmudgeonesque
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole Category: Curmudgeonesque
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. – Lisa See Category: Beauty
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Medicine