He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.

He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.

You may be a poet and not even know it.

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss.

Here is a guaranteed way to get more of what you want: want less.

Intellectually, I think everyone really knows that women are funny, but it's a weird thing that people keep trotting out.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Soft and faire goes farre.

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.