I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

The best of a bad bargain.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

Athletics is a luxury.

You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.

If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.