Nothing so perilous as procrastination

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

You have to be on the pitch to play football.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.