Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

Life is being, not having.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.