Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

Economic experts tell us that the women of America spend 80 per cent of the national income, and the largest part of this expenditure is made for the necessities and the small luxuries of life.

Some things never change

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.