Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

The market doesn´t care about titles.

I hope you're not smoking in front of her, ' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia, ' he says, irritated.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.