O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Mates such as they must stand by one another

Every year, some 65, 000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.