“I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake – which I also keep handy.”
– W. C. Fields

“Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children and our sins lay on the king! We must bear all. O hard condition, Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel But his own wringing! What infinite heart’s-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!”
– Wm. Shakespeare, in Henry V

“I feel sorry for people who donít drink or do drugs. Because someday theyíre going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they wonít know why.”
– Redd Foxx

“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”
– Mark Twain

“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.”
-Arthur Miller, 1915-2005.

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
– J.M. Barrie

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
– G. K. Chesterton

“Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

Balancing that previous wide-eyedly optimistic post:

“Anyone committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable… Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.”
– Successful novelist and screenwriter Steven Pressfield