The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.