LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.

When your mind is overflowing with peace, you will find peace all around you.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.