A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.