Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

What selfish soulwould ask anotherto livethis way.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

Tell her we don’t bite.” “I don’t lie to my friends.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive