Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?

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.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.