Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.