Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.
You are in some brown study.
Poetry is a mug's game.
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.
Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back.
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.
Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.