Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes. We now have very secure dishes!

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.