Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Beauty without expression tires.

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?

Practice, the master of all things.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

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