The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Cole was meticulous to a fault

The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

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Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.