Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Convert every passing time of your life before it melts away.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort.

Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!