The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

A little work a little play To keep us going - and so good-day!

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Two things I can't stand - sitting and sleeping.

Joseph lost his son and Christ. (Joseph a perdu - Son fils et Jésus.)

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.

The supporters...It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step.

Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

We've got, not only the Alaskan pipeline is not being built, and that oil, Canada may decide to sell it to China, and we may lose that oil forever.

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.