I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Do not rush in the ride of life.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.