Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Having confidence in your obedience, offers yourself confidence and love.

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday

You are neither coffee nor tea, you are just the right amount ofwhatever it is I’m trying to find.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.