Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

Genius is of no country.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

A joke's a very serious thing.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.