It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.

I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries.

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.