By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

All good things must come to an end.

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Many small make a great.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.

June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.

When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.

"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

I'm not that interested in people