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• You first parent of the human race... who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
  -- Brillat-savarin, "Physiologie du Gou...
• EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
  "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote....
• If not for us, you might have done something constructive.
• If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are for yourself, then what are you?
  If not now, when?...
• First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. -- Epictetu
• Oh dear, you seem to have gotten yourself killed. I might be able to help you out, but I've never really done this before.
  Do you want me to try to reincarnate you?...
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. -- Confuciu
• If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.
• What do you get when you cross a Klingon with a politician?
  Someone in Washington who might actually get something done!...