Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Never depend on a road, depend on your strides

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

The great appeal of film is its relatability.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting