Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him.

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?” “Are you asking me for it?” “If I were, would you give it to me?

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.