Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter Drucker

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Mitch Hedberg

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.
Mitch Hedberg

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
Mitch Hedberg

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway