My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'
It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Try out your shoes on your feet -- gauge people against their misfortune.
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just as sugar is no antidote for poison.
Do not dress in clothes made of leaves when going to put out a fire.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
If you do good to the Devil, out of gratitude he will deliver you to hell.
When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
When the cook and the steward fall out, we hear who stole the butter.
He who digs too deep for a fish, may come out with a snake.
Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage.
He who is desperate will squeeze oil out of a grain of sand.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water.
The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out.
Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey.
Lovers always think that other people have had their eyes put out.
Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled...
The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be marri...