“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

I’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don’t even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.