I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. -- Mose Allison

Some suggestions for you :

Making a decision is only the beginning of things.

He is able who thinks he is able.

A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education make you a fortune.

A three- year-old child is a being who almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.