I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

It was more real than anything she’d ever imagined, and she clung to that in the same way that the sky clung to the earth.

Writing is a bit like going on a diet

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

We believe the super stock option will become a reality before the end of 2000, ... It's a good idea whose time has come.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed.

If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.