Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene” - Levi

If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

Let us be merciful as well as just.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.