“One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn’t yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”
“And I guess I’d better work a little harder at correcting my faults. What would you say was my worst one?” The cow shook her head. “Let’s stay friends, and you figure that out for yourself.” ― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Plays Football
“I consider myself the single honest man in a world of rogues and blackguards, present company excepted. In these conditions it is hard to accumulate wealth.” ― Jack Vance, Cugel’s Saga
