The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

Philosophy is for the few.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.