Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with."~Sean O'Neill

But here, the rain was just another part of the landscape. Like it was the thing that lived here and we were merely visitors.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.