An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.