Swift has sailed into his rest;

Savage indignation there cannot lacerate his breast.

Imitate him if you dare, world-besotted traveler;

He served human liberty.

(Jonathan Swift’s epitaph)

"Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it." (Spanish proverb)

"Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." (Mark Twain)

“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.” (Edward Coke)

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.” (Edna Woolman Chase)

"Business is about deep strategy that you implement yourself, no matter how long it takes or how much work you have to put in." (Ronald Williams)

"There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced." (Anonymous)

"The Almighty has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come but which having continued through His appointed time He now wills to remove and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him. Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said: 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'" (Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1864)

“I don’t want anyone to challenge my right to sound completely mad.” (Duke Ellington)

If Joe Rogan was named Josh Rogan, the inverse of his name would be Rogan Josh.

You can't spell "sanity" without "insanity."

"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her." (Helen Rowland)

“All music is folk music; I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.” (Louis Armstrong)

​​All is not well in the old empire.

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” (William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying)

"But good writers have a reason for doing things the way they do them, and if you tinker with their work, taking it upon yourself to neutralize a slightly eccentric usage or zap a comma or sharpen the emphasis of something that the writer was deliberately keeping obscure, you are not helping. In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process. They weigh queries, and they accept or reject them for good reasons. They are not defensive. The whole point of having things read before publication is to test their effect on a general reader. You want to make sure when you go out there that the tag on the back of your collar isn't poking up—unless, of course, you are deliberately wearing your clothes inside out." (Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen)

"He who can lick can bite." (French proverb)

“I’ll always be a word man, better than a bird man.” (Jim Morrison)

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)

"To live outside the law, you must be honest." (Bob Dylan, "Absolutely Sweet Marie")