Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

As long as you call on God, He will answer you.

There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.

Why live boring, if you can make things exceptional...

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?