If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

You have to know the past to understand the present.

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

Also, at a certain point relentlessness itself can become comedic.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

Age ain't nothing but a number, that's what Chi-Ali said. OK, then why don't you get that through the judge's head?

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.