Mug Quotes

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.