Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

The essence of existence is experience.

Wake up! You’re a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.

Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

The writer works in a lonely way.

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.