You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
In this fool's paradise, he drank delight
There was an old hen And she had a wooden leg, And every damned morning She laid another egg; She was the best damned chicken On the whole damned farm - And another little drink Wouldn't do us any harm.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.
Fear is stronger than arms.
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Where life is more terrible than death, it is the truest valor to dare to live.
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.