The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.