The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Why are you worrying about you-know-who?You should be worrying about u-no-poo!The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

I don't feel hunky at all.