I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.

The known universe always feels easier even when it's miserable.

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

You don't get nothing and like it.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.