In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The Maker is a Mighty warrior.

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.

The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.